KBM Standing Against Immodesty
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Welcome back to another episode of Kids Bible Minute. Today, we are continuing our series on being a “Defender of the Faith.” I have enjoyed studying for these topics and hope you are enjoying them as well and that they are helping you to stay strong and stand up for righteousness in this old sinful world.
Our topic of study this day is “Standing Against Immodesty.” Like with a lot of the topics we have looked this year, for some reason this particular topic seems to missing from being taught or preached on. As a preacher, and having recently looked back at my sermons for when I last preached on modesty “as a topic” it has been a few years, April of 2024.
This really shouldn’t be, and the reality is, we are seeing what happens in the church today, with this topic is being ignored or forgotten. I have been dumbfounded by the number of young ladies in particular, but also young men more and more over the last several years that are wearing more and more sinfully immodest clothing, even to worship their Creator.
Now God, through his word and from the very beginning when immodesty became an issue, has demonstrated what he requires for one to be modest. When Adam and Eve sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, their eyes were open to the fact that they were naked. To be clear this wasn’t an issue yet, because it was just the two of them, and they were married by God as husband and wife. However, eventually this would have been brought up as they had children and those children grew up (Ezekiel 16:8). God would have then had to inform them of what was required at that point, modest apparel. We know this because when Adam and Eve sped up that process by eating the forbidden fruit God corrected their poor attempt at making clothing and clothed them modestly.
21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
This word for clothed in the Hebrew means covered from the neck to either just below the knees or all the way to one’s ankles, as it can mean either one of those two.
From that point on, God’s law on immodesty and modesty has never changed through the years. When he brough the Israelites out of captivity and established his law for them, we see his concern for modesty in Exodus 28:40-42.
40 “For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make sashes for them. And you shall make hats for them, for glory and beauty. 41 So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests. 42 And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thighs.
The altar was higher in the air, and so God made sure that when his priests went to up to make sacrifices they had basically underwear such as boxer briefs on so no one could look up and see their “nakedness.”
If God’s priests had to be clothed fully and cover every aspect of their nakedness, so should Christians today, after all are we all not priests of God?
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Listen, God’s people have enough to deal with when we go outside our doors when it comes to the sin of immodesty, we shouldn’t have to worry about it in the church. And yet, we do because for some reason, fathers and mothers are letting their sons and daughters dress with clothing that is either too tight, too missing, or too see through.
And how can they teach against it, when they themselves often wear the same things? We also don’t have enough elders and leaders in the church standing up against such and demanding that parents protect their kids from this sin.
No Christian should be supporting immodesty, instead they should be shouting to their children from the roof top from the time they are young of the importance of living a life of purity, as Peter points out in 1 Peter 3:4.
4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
Parents you need to create a home that not only demonstrates purity over popularity, but that requires it both inside your home and outside your home. Elders must be demanding this in worship and encouraging the local preachers to preach on it, and their teachers to teach on it, starting when the children are small and continuing through their teens. The church must stand up against immodesty and defend a pure and upright mind and body.
I leave you today with what God told Titus, through the apostle Paul in Titus 1:15-16.
15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
