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CAN By EVANG. DON CRISWELL W129 E-MAIL: pgcriswell@gmail.com PHONE: 219.754.1133 This message was preached in the SUNDAY MORNING
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wish this morning that some- how, God could just perform a sur-
gery here. I would like to be able to be cut open spiritually. I
wish God could take what is in my heart today and somehow spread
it throughout this congregation. Folks, I am concerned. Really, I am afraid, because the trend
of the time is so serious, and it seems like we that name the name
of Jesus are so unconcerned. We tend to say, “Well, it is the signs
of the times; it is just the trend of the day for things to go this
way.” But I believe this morning they do not have to go the way they
are going. I believe if God's people would stand where God's people
need to stand and make their impact that they need to make where
they are, we could stop the trend that is around us. I still believe what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount,
when He said we are to be the salt of the earth and the light of
the world. And I believe a born-again, Spirit-filled, God-pleasing
Christian can be just that! I am concerned about America. Someone made the analogy in an
article that I read recently that South America was founded for
gold, but North America was founded for God. I think we need to
come back to that place where there is a new recognition of God.
I think this morning I can feel, in a little bit of a manner, like
Jeremiah felt. Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, the man
whose heart was broken over
the sins of a nation that had turned its back on God. They, as we
read in the Scripture this morning, committed abominations, they
did all kinds of things. They weren't embarrassed. They were not
ashamed, because their hearts had become calloused and cold in their
religious formality and they had forgotten the “Amens” and “Praise
the Lords” and reaching out to do God's will with their lives. Listen, any
people begin to cool, any people become that lukewarm variety when
they lose the “Amens” and the “Praise the Lords” in their lives,
in their vo- cabularies, in their actions, in their walk with the
Lord Jesus Christ. Then I see that sixteenth verse that we read this morning:
“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.” The Lord spoke through Jeremiah
and said, “Stand ye in the ways.” Now, Christian, listen this morn- ing. We are to stand in the
path- ways of life as Jeremiah did. I believe that is where soul-winning
comes in; that is where witnessing is involved. I was in Florida
just a few weeks after a ship tore that bridge down in the St. Petersburg-Tampa
Bay area, and the Grey- hound bus and other vehicles went into Tampa
Bay. They were still scanning the water for bodies. But it is told
that on the bridge that day, one gen- tleman whose car stopped just
at the brink, at the edge of that disaster, was found doing every-
thing he could, running back up the bridge, waving his hands; and
screaming, “Stop! Stop! Stop!” I think we need some Christians today who will stand in the
path- ways of life and wave their hands and wave the banner of the
Cross and say, “Stop! Stop! Stop! Because you are headed for the
brink of disaster. The bridge is out!” I picked up an article. These words were in it; they stirred
my soul. I share it with you this morning: “Our society is killing
babies by the millions.” God help us! God cannot, God will not,
bless America or any other nation that is in the murder business! If you want to put a title on the message this morning, it
is “Can America Be Saved?” And I want to be honest with you
– I have my sincere doubts; but I have high hopes. I would like
to see her saved. Wouldn't you like to see a nation turned around;
where the president and the congress and the senate would meaningfully
have a time with God as they start the sessions of every day? When through state represen- tation the same type of thing
could happen and somehow we could see God move in our land? But
you cannot legislate morality. It has to be governed by the hearts
of redeemed, transformed, blood-washed individuals. Our society is killing babies by the millions. Our media is
cham- pioning filthy hellish
morals in their most vile forms, and the minds of our children are
being stolen and their souls are being damned. Our money is being
legally stolen and used for immoral means. The church, the bride
of Jesus Christ, is being attacked openly and un- ashamedly as never
before. The home, the first pillar of morality and the foundation of
society, is being brutally assaulted in this day. Jesus Christ is
mocked. God is blasphemed. Holy things are spit upon. Our national
foundations are crumbling before a relentless assault brought on
us by ungodly men. “Maybe we would rather be thought well of than to be right.”
That statement went all the way through my soul. As I reflect back
on the years of a fundamental ministry, the greatest suffering in
the Christian camp today among God's people is happening be- cause
people would rather be popular than right. We have lost our sense of shame and our ability to blush and
weep, just like we read in the book of Jeremiah. We are not nice.
We are weak. If somebody does not start calling sin by its name,
and even naming the sinner, we will pat ourselves on the back, com-
plimenting ourselves on how nice we are, all the way to oblivion
and judgment! It is time to get back to the name of the sins and
the things happening to destroy and undermine our nation. I share the following list with you because it sets the stage
for what I will get into next. It is entitled, “Can You Remember?” Can you remember in our country when Bible believers could do their job and the crooks of America went to jail? We have seen it; we have heard it publicized, we have read
about it. But Lester Roloff and other preachers and Christian leaders
across America have been put in jail for their faith and practice
for the Lord Jesus Christ, and the rapists and the criminals of
our country are running up and down the streets threatening our
security every hour of the day. What kind of day is it? Can you remember when public schools were peaceful? Gentlemen,
the public school is doomed. Now, you might be a defender of the
public school, but if you get right with God, you will quit defending
them. I know some of your kids go there, some of you work there,
some of you send your kids there. I am not fussing at you about
that. I am simply saying to you it is doomed, and it is one of the
major instruments today that is de- stroying the morals of America
be- cause of the “man-become-God” philosophy that is promoted in
the universities and that is filtering into the children of this
land. The av- erage young person today says, “I will do just exactly
as I please.” Can you remember when our cities were safe? It is not safe
to walk the streets of our cities anymore. Can you remember when criminals were in jail and not in hospitals and country clubs? Can you remember when degenerates were in the closet and not in the pulpits and the classrooms of our country? The church today is living just about where the world was about ten or fifteen years ago. That is how worldly the church has be- come. That is how much we have degenerated and gone downhill in our permissiveness. We have to come back to the old ways and the old paths and the old morality and the old Book and back to where God says if America is ever to be saved. There is no other way. Can you remember when girls never hitchhiked rides? Can you remember when babies were born out of wedlock and there
was shame and regret? Now we have nurseries in public schools where the children
who have babies in high school can take those babies and nursery
workers will watch them while they go on with their high school
edu- cation. God help us. I think a child born out of wedlock is a disgrace and an ab-
omination and a sin and it needs to be dealt with and encountered
with as such. Now, God will forgive the sinner; but I think we need
to quit condoning the sin. Why did we have one and one-half million
ab- ortions in America last year? It is because we have become a “sex-enraged” nation that wants
all the pleasures and all the privi- leges but doesn't want to pay
the bill. We have forgotten Galatians
6:7: “be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Can you remember when a man went to the hospital for a couple of weeks if he ridiculed or spit on the flag? Thank God we can stand in a service like this morning and pledge
the flag. When I see young people with a flag sewed on the seat
of their pants, I would like to get something else on the seat of
their pants. Can you remember when you could watch television and nev- er hear a curse word or see a bedroom scene? If you have a television set it has to be closely censored,
or it will mar your family. Can you remember when you could afford to eat steak once a week? Can you remember when
a man had hair on his chest and a bone in his back? Don't worry about
hair on your head. Get some hair on our chest and a bone in your
back. Get some men in America! The ERA
is a product of fragile men! Women have had to take over
and become dominant in society because of the lily-livered men that
have been loose in this country. Can you remember when churches of most major de- nominations held services and gave an invitation and en- couraged people to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour? It is a rare thing today
to find a church where a sermon is preached and an invitation is
given at the close of every sermon. You go to most of them, they
have the same 37 people that come every time, if they come at all,
and so they just wallow around in their own self-righteousness and
they don't do a thing in the world about reaching people for the
Lord Jesus Christ. They have forgotten how, or don't know how, to
give an invitation. Here are some things that we need if we are going to see America
saved. We need some Biblical mor- ality. Stop allowing
sex to be a plaything. I resent that everything you see advertised
on television and billboards has to have a semi-nude woman to go
along with it to try to make an appeal to the public eye. There
is something wrong with a society that has to have that kind of
an appeal made to it sen- sually to sell a product. God help us! Let's do something about the alcohol, drug, and tobacco problem.
By the way, alcohol
and tobacco are drugs, too. Drugs! You get addicted to them. They
ruin your health. They mar your tes- timony. They are a menace to
society. Thank God for
Billy Sunday. We need some Billy Sunday's to come back that will
grab an old chair, get mad enough in the pulpit, get mad at sin,
and, if need be, go ahead and break a chair over the pulpit to try
to get somebody's attention. We need to break a chair over a few
heads to maybe get some attention about what is happening morally
in our country. I read a statistic some time ago that said we spend $29,000
a minute to curb crime, and we are failing. You think about $29,000
a minute. I would like to have an hour's worth of those funds. I
would start a Christian school. We are spending more in 38 hours
in America on booze than is spent the entire year, 365 days on soul-winning
evangelism. Is our society sick? More is put into the systems of our people
that gets them inebriated, or just plain drunk, than what we spend
in an entire year in trying to win souls and bring people to the
Lord Jesus Christ! We need some Godly homes. Dads, let me
have your attention for a minute. I still believe it. I believe
God ordained the man to be the head, the leader, and the main spiritual
example in the home. We have gone through an era in America, and
many of us today can remember it, when the majority of the work
in the local church was done by the women. Every Sunday School class
was taught by a lady. Most of the things that had to be done in and around the church
had to be done by the women because the men were saying, “I am too
big. I am too tough. I don't
need this religious stuff. That is for the wife and kids.” It takes a man to be a Christian. It takes a man to say, “I
surrender my life, my way, my will, my family, my all. I become
a Joshua-type Christian who says, “As for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord!” That takes a man who says, “We are going
to do what is right. I am going to set an example.” My heart goes out to you ladies this morning that come time
and time again to our services and do not have the encouragement
and the support of your husbands. It touches me. It really does.
Man, you lead that home. You be the example. You lead out and see
that prayer and Bible reading and church attendance and godliness
and proper things are done within your family and your home. A little boy didn't get to see his daddy very often. He came
to his mother one evening and said, “Momma, who is that man who
runs home every once in a while and comes through our house and
kisses me and smacks you and leaves?” It was daddy. That's who it
was. That's about all some kids ever see of daddy. Something that
is not leaving a very good image of what is right and good and proper. We need some examples in our homes where daddy loves his kids
and spends some time with them. And then, Mother, you need to be
what you ought to be in that home, too, in building and seeing that
love is there. Take Proverbs chap-
ter 31 and become that kind of a woman in your home who will
be concerned about and care for and provide on the inside those
things that need to be provided by being a mother in the home. And then, kids, listen. You need to obey your parents. We are
in a generation that is absolutely gov- erned by the kids. I have
a grand- son. If that rascal
doesn't shape up soon, he will be the head of the house. But he
is shaping up. The other night, he wouldn't go to sleep. He stood
in his crib and screamed at the top of his lungs, developing a preacher's
voice, for three and one-half hours. They have to be broken. You
know what that is – stubbornness! You let that go on, you let that
child get to be six years old, the way he is going, and he will
be running this country. So you have to break the will. I listened to a debate between two men on television. One man
was saying that politicians come on the scene and say, “Well, we
have to spend this money because we have been contacted about these
services that the American people want us to have for them.” What
services? That's the bur- eaucrats lining their pockets with our
tax dollars, that is what it is. We need to get back to a government “of the people, by the
people, for the people.”
I don't know this morning how to tell us to do that. But we sure
need it. One of the things that would help would be to recognize
a little righteousness in high places. “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to
any people.” We have politicians all over this country in jail right now
because of their bribery and their misconduct and their misdoings.
And we have a lot of them still running loose, still doing it, getting
away with it just like Nixon did. We need to have a new re- spect for freedom and authority.
How do you feel when you are traveling on the highway and you
see a police car? By the way you are laughing, I know how you feel
– guilty! There is something about authority that brings fear to
our lives, isn't there? Isn't it amazing? The average American citizen
has more fear of a car with a bub- blegum machine on top of it than
he does for God. Of course, a lot of people don't have any fear
of the police either. We, somehow, have to get back to the justice,
the freedom, the authority of our nation. On the Liberty Bell are the words of Leviticus 25:10: “To
proclaim liberty throughout the land.” I think we need that
liberty. I think the Lord Jesus Christ guar- antees us that liberty.
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
But my freedom ends where your rights begin; and that is forgotten
about by the average citizen of our country who is bulldozing his
way through society, acting like the world owes him a living. In the courts of our land, that absolutely have no teeth, that
can do nothing about enforcing justice, you can murder somebody
and say, “Well, I was a little bit fruity that day,” and they will
put a psychiatrist on your case. He will defend you. That psychiatrist
is aiding and abetting a murderer, and I am against that. Anybody that murders should be held accountable for that mur-
der. I don't care how sick he is. The Bible teaches capital pun-
ishment. You are listening to a preacher this morning who be- lieves
in capital punishment, and that has been taken away from our society.
We need to quit making a hero out of the villain and burying the
victim. We need a reverence for God and country. I said earlier that when I see the flag it does something for
me. The other night, some boys were gathered around the flag here
at church and one of the men was going through some instructions,
teaching them some things about the American flag. I sat down in the back yard, and there was something that just
came over me as I saw the rev- erence of those boys circling that
flag. As Old Glory was reverently taken down from that pole, I said
in my heart, “Thank you, Lord; for what is mine as an American.” We are having a lot of things rapidly taken from us, but we
still have more than any people any place else in the world. “United
we stand, divided we fall.” I still believe the slogan “Love it
or leave it.” I am against what is happening in Russia at the Olympics. I
am against the telecasts that are reporting what is happening over
there and who is winning and who is running and what the records
are. I think we need to close the Communist world out, because the
Communist world is out to close us out. Every American who went
to Russia for the Olympics ought to be kept over there. One of the
greatest things President Carter did in the entire time he was our
president was to boycott the Olympics in Russia. And I am in favor
of it and I thank God for what he did in taking a stand on that
matter. We need some strong Bible preachers. I made a promise to God many years ago that I am going to preach
the Word. I will never be a popular preacher, and if I ever become
popular, I will know I am backslid. Now, I will maybe be popular,
and I hope will be friends, with those who love the Lord and want
to stand and do what is right. But if I say, “Surrender your all to God; seek ye first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness,” I am going to get on somebody's
toes. But I believe this morning the major dilemmas in America lies
on the pulpits of America. And I am sick and tired of this thing within the religious
camps of fundamentalists fighting back and forth among themselves.
However, if there is a liberal and a modernist and something is
wrong, Praise God, we need to expose it! I have a pamphlet which asks, “Why should a born-again believer
leave a church that is liberal, modernistic, or not true to the
Bible?” I will tell you very simply why; because that church is
not right with God, that is why. But in this pamphlet is illus- tration after illustration -- “World Council
of Churches against the Gospel” -- “Episcopal Priest being Accepted
into the Ministry” -- “Infidels in the Pulpit” -- “Most don't believe
in the Creation story.” Most don't believe God's act of Creation in creating man; they
be-lieve in evolution. Most don't be- lieve the Bible is the infallible,
inerrant Word of God. Anyone who is in a church where the preacher doesn't believe
those things are true, if they know the Lord, or know anything about
the Lord, should find the back door and stay out that door! They
will be better off! Many clergymen do not believe in Hell. (1) Forty-four percent
of all Lutherans believe that salvation depends upon whatever you
be- lieve sincerely. (2) United Meth- odists do not have a single
theo- logical seminary that you could consider as
being Bible believing. (3) United Presbyterians do not believe the
Bible to be trustworthy. That is a denominational state- ment! (4)
And the Southern Bap- tists had one of the presidents of a theological
seminary lead in a prayer at the dedication of a brewery in North
Carolina. I have a copy of the prayer right here. “Dear Lord, we
thank You today that Thou has made us so that we could enjoy new
beginnings.” God help us! We have to come back to the old ways and the old
paths and the old truths and the old Book and make these things
echo clear upon the land to the Glory of God, and it is to echo
from the pulpit. I get in trouble today preaching about women wear- ing pants.
Let me throw one more noose around my neck this morning. I am still
against it. And, listen to me, ladies, before you get mad and leave
on that issue. Go back 25 years, go back 15 years, go back to the
end of the seventies. About the only kind of women you saw pants
on were fallen women. Now it is becoming accepted, and in most churches even across the
tri-state area women come into the services wearing their pants,
blue jeans and everything else. I am against it. We have to echo from the pulpits, and if we are going to save
America, those of us that are saved have to pay the price to do
it. I am against long hair on a male. You say, “Preacher, what does
that have to do with it?” That has a lot to do with it, because
long hair on a man has always been the sign of rebellion. You fellows
who wear long hair say, “Well, I am not rebellious.” Then you are
running with a crowd that is, because you are copying a rebel somewhere.
You get things right with God and you want to do what is right. Then we need to make people know there is a hell. I don't care that somebody says: “Well, there is no such thing
as hell. Hell is right here on earth. You just can't preach that
to the people.” I am going to preach it! Because my Bible preaches
it and Jesus preached it and hell is real, and the soul that knows
not Jesus Christ as personal Saviour when it dies will go to hell.
The world needs to know and the church needs to revive that doctrine
in its midst; because if we could get a vision of hell, we would
all become greater soul-winners. We need some personal righteousness. I believe we are to live Godly in Christ Jesus. I believe I
as a Christian have a respon- sibility unto God to live, act and
do that which is right, and if I don't do that, I am wrong. You
cannot do wrong, rightly. We have to learn to do what is right to
the Glory of God. We need some personal righteousness. We need some
folks that will stand and make a fuss over an issue. I want to live
right. Some of the men from our church were soul-winning in Ev- ansville
one night, along with several men from the black community. They
walked in on a dice game on the street and started witnessing and
talking about Jesus. They just about ruined the dice game. Some
of the fellows shooting dice there on the street, just wallowing
in their own self-misery, looked up and said, “We ain't never seen
nothing like this before!” That is what the world will say when there are some Christians
who are practicing some godliness and righteousness and are living
right, standing right, and walking right. We need some personal
righteousness. “Righteousness exalteth a nation.” Sin is
a reproach to any people. Last, but not least, We need some churches on fire for
Christ. I want Marantha Baptist Church to be on fire. I
am not against anybody else's church, if it is in the business of
trying to reach people for Jesus, and I will not run them down.
But I want this church to have a little bit of spiritual flame,
just burning. I want something like what is in my heart this morning to reach
out and get in your heart. Together let's catch fire and do something for God, before
time runs out. I guarantee you ev- erybody in this room today will
one day stand in the presence of God and say, “Oh God, I wish I
had done a little bit better. I could have done better.” You can
do better if you want to. There was a baseball game near our house several nights ago.
I am not against baseball, if it is done right, done at the right
time, does not interfere with church, and does not keep me awake.
But they had three baseball games, and they played until after midnight.
I never heard such screaming and yelling in all my life. I was several
yards from the stands, and they were there whooping and hollering
over a block of wood hitting a little white piece of leather. Whoopee!! Then we come to church, we hear that Jesus saves; Jesus is coming; we have a great time; the Bible is the Word of God; we have a heaven; we have eternity before us! And we don't get excited at all. Right? We need to get on fire for Jesus Christ! The classic story is told of the old atheist who lived in the
community and said, “I don't be- lieve in the churc.” He said, “I
don't believe in any of that stuff. I am not going to church. Stay
away from me with that stuff.” One night the church caught on fire. The old country community
didn't have a fire house. They didn't have a fire truck. They had
a local stream and a bucket brigade. They got their buckets out,
made their line down to the stream, and were passing buckets of
water through the line and pouring it on the fire. Nobody knew for
sure who was beside him. The community just turned out. Finally, one of the members of the church realized that he
was standing alongside the town atheist, that guy who had been visited
by every evangelist that came to town; the preacher had been there;
the laymen had been there. The atheist always said, “I don't want
church. I don't want anything to do with it.” The church member
said, “I thought you didn't believe in the church.” The atheist
said, “I don't.” The church member said, “I thought you didn't go
to church.” The atheist said, “I don't.” The church member said,
“Then what are you doing here now?” The atheist said, “I am out
here because I have never seen it on fire before.” Brother, I would hate to see Marantha Baptist Church building
burn down. But if it had to burn down to get somebody saved and
get some things stirred and get something done, I am for burning
her down. Let's get the church aflame for the Lord Jesus Christ.
I don't believe you will change America from Washington. I
be- lieve you will change Washington from the pulpit. I think
it has to be the grassroots who go out into the community. When I travel down the inter- state and look off at little towns and villages, I look for steeples. And I often wonder, I wonder if somebody is preaching the gospel. I wonder if they have a bus min- istry. I wonder if they are winning anybody to Jesus. I wonder what they are doing for the Lord. Some churches have 150, 200, 260, 300 in Sunday School. I am
for Maranatha running 1,000 in Sunday School just as soon as possible,
and the sooner the bet- ter. I am for it. Then 2,000 or whatever.
I am for reaching the area. But what is happening every week from this pulpit, from our
young people in their soul-winning activities, from our Phoster
Club ladies, from our men on Tuesday and Thursday night visitation,
from our bus workers out on Saturday knocking on doors, from what
happens when people get saved, from our youth camps and other activities
as they happen is what is going to change America. Friends – step by step and project by project, through the
local church becoming the salt of the earth and the light of the
world in its community,
coming back to the old paths and saying, “I want to
be a Bible-believing funda- mentalist.” If I thought there was a liberal hair in my slowly balding
head I would call the deacons together and I would say, “Fellows,
pluck it.” I don't want anything to do with
anything that is liberal, other than a liberal giver. God help us to play a part in bringing America back to Him,
if it can be done, if America can be saved. But, folks, if she can
be saved, we are going to do it. Pat Boone isn't going to do it,
Johnny Cash isn't going to do it. It is the local people in the
local com- munity, living consistent lives for the will of God who
are going to do it. EDITOR’S COMMENTS:
I know this will be hard for some of you to believe but thirty years
ago when this message was preached most Bible Believing Fundamental
Baptist Prea- chers preached messages like this on a regular basis.
Now in 2009 only a few still walk and preach the old paths. WHY IS THIS? Very simple. THINGS
HAVE GOTTEN SO GOOD THAT IT IS NO LONGER
NECESSARY TO PREACH SUCH POINTED
SERMONS! Chris- tian people are now walking so close to
the Lord that it would be a waste of time and effort to do this
kind of preaching. God’s
people are now dressing right, talking right, going to the right
places, etc. Right? NO
– WRONG!! Now thirty years later things are far worse. If that is true, and it is, then why is it that
there are so few preachers preaching these kind of messages. This must be it. GOD
HAS CHANGED HIS STANDARDS OF SEPARATION AND NO LONGER REQUIRES HIS
PEOPLE TO TAKE A STAND ON THESE THINGS. Even though preachers preached these kind of messages back
thirty years ago because they believed that the Word of God taught
these things most these days finally discovered that they didn’t
understand the Word of God like they do now.
THAT THEY WERE WRONG THIRTY YEARS AGO. RIGHT?
NO!! WRONG AGAIN!! The truth of the matter is that we have left the old paths
in our churches. We no longer
want to walk in the old paths. We
now love the things of the world and the way of the world more then
we love the holiness of God and his Word.
There are now very few separated people in many churches. If it was not right for a man to have long hair and wear ear
rings thirty years ago it still is today.
If it was wrong to drink booze of any kind thirty years ago,
and it was, then according to the Word of God it still is today. If it was considered immodest dress for a Christian woman to
wear pants thirty years ago it still is today.
If a preacher these days takes a stand on women wearing pants,
even to services, he is in trouble and sometimes it is from the
person who lives with him. Bro. Criswell has some things to say about pant wearing women
in this message and where women wearing pants came from. It wasn’t from the
Word of God and it wasn’t because it is modest dress. Any man knows why women wearing pants is not
modest dress. I know of a Bible Believing Independent Baptist preacher who
actually made the remark that, “I think my wife looks good in
pants.” When asked in an e-mail where you can purchase
modest pants there was no answer.
When asked how you can tell a pair of modest pants from a
pair of immodest pants no answer. When asked if a preacher has a number of women who wear pants
to the services – or anywhere else for that matter – if the pastor
would need to get a pant checker to stand at the door and check
the pants out to maker sure they were modest.
Still no answer. Why no answer? Simple. There
is no such thing as modest pants on a woman. I was at the bank the other day.making a TORCH deposit. The bank has a large lobby. There are mostly women working there and also
customers coming and going. I
noticed that not EVEN ONE of the women were dressed like
a lady. Of course this made certain portions of their
body stand out. I thought
to myself, “Why would a Christian woman want to dress in such matter
and run around all over town.” Simple:
I Timothy 2:9-11, Romans 12:2, I John 2:15. I don’t know about you but I want my wife to look like a lady
at all times when in public. If
my wife looked good in pants I would be wondering how many other
men would be looking at her thinking the same thing?
Praise the Lord for Mary who is a lady in every area of her
life. Thank God for a submissive wife. The pastor and his wife are to set the example in the church
and teach others. And that
goes for teaching the men that they should look different then someone
just coming in from a fishing trip or a hunting trip or a game of
golf when they come to church. Anyone can afford a white shirt and tie. COME
TO THINK OF IT. I BE- LIEVE I WILL START WEARING A DRESS WHILE PREACHING
AND ATTENDING
SERVICES. A MODEST DRESS – OF COURSE!! Your
Welcome!! -- Evang. Don Edwards |
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