THE JOB OF A PROPHET IS TO WARN PEOPLE AND PROTECT THEM. IF ANYONE IS A SHEPHERD, IT IS A TRUE PROPHET OF GOD! I MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR THE WORD I AM ABOUT TO DELIVER TO YOU!
The Word of GOD says:
Revelation 12:10-12 New King James Version
“10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”” (NKJV)
A TESTIMONY FOR WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE IN YOUR LIFE, ISN’T A TESTIMONY – UNLESS THE DEVIL IS FULLY CAST DOWN WHILE YOUR TESTIMONY IS BEING GIVEN AND THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM!
Individuals themselves, the interviewees, the broadcast entities, the recording entities, the airing entities, the churches, the ministries, that are PRESENTING THE TESTIMONIES – HAVE BEEN SINNING IN THE PROCESS AND DRAWING OTHERS INTO SIN – THIS IS AN APOSTASY BEFORE GOD! WHEN YOU ARE DOING THIS – YOU ARE NOT HELPING ANYONE TO OVERCOME! YOU ARE NOT HONORING GOD! YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYONE A BIG GOD FAVOR! YOU ARE HURTING PEOPLE INSTEAD, BY EXPOSING PEOPLE TO SINFUL MATERIALS AND SETTING A POOR EXAMPLE FOR HOLINESS AND GODLINESS, MAKING A MOCKERY OF GOD’S STANDARDS, AND DOING THIS BEFORE UNBELIEVERS!
HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?
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BY INDIVIDUALS GIVING THEIR TESTIMONIES OR THE INTERVIEWERS THEMSELVES DRESSING IN PORNOGRAPHIC ATTIRE. What is pornographic attire? Showing your breasts, cleavage, and dressing immodestly in other ways. IMMODEST DRESS IS THE BEGINNING OF SEXUAL SIN! When you are an OVERCOMER – YOU SHOULD NOT BE CURRENTLY DRESSED IN OR SHOW PICTURES OF YOUR FORMER SELF (FOR EXAMPLE: PROMO SHOTS) IN PORNOGRAPHIC ATTIRE NOR SHOULD YOU, AS AN INTERVIEWER BE DRESSED THAT WAY IN YOUR PRESENT LIFE WHILE INTERVIEWING SOMEONE ELSE! DRESSING IMMODESTLY IS DRESSING LIKE A PROSTITUTE AND TRAFFICKING YOURSELF. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A PROSTITUTE AND TRAFFICKING YOURSELF NOW!
Notice how Proverbs 5: 19 – 20 says,
“19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?” (NIV)
If you look up that word “breasts” in that scripture it says:
Strong’s H1717
“dad” (pronounced just like we say it in English)
“breast, nipple, teat” also
apparently from the same as H1730: the breast (as the seat of love, or from its shape):—breast, teat.
If you look up H1730 it says in this context:
“from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e. (figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token” (Strong’s H1730, BLB, 2022)
So, is the exposing of the breast supposed to be to just anyone? Are you to give or expose a “love token” to just anyone? (BLB, 2022)
No. It is a “love token” only to be shared with your husband. (Strong’s H1730, BLB, 2022)
The Song of Solomon – is a biblical book that represents courtship and a relationship between a husband and wife.
When speaking about love between a husband and wife it deals with romantic love and sexual intimacy in the natural.
It is also a symbol speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ’s relationship with His Bride – the church – in the spiritual and in the natural and cautioning them NOT to form relationships with false Gods.
Three times a similar warning is repeated within the Song of Solomon. This warning is meant for BOTH men and women:
Song of Solomon 2:7 New King James Version
“7 I [a]charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.” (NKJV)
Song of Solomon 3:5 New King James Version
“5 I [b]charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.” (NKJV)
Song of Solomon 8:4 New King James Version
“4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.” (NKJV)
The words: “Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.” (Song of Solomon 2:7, 3:5, and 8:4 NKJV) all mean the same thing:
That word “awaken” (NKJV) in all of those verses, means “`uwr” – pronounced [or with a rolled r] “to arouse oneself,” “stir up,” or “incite” (Strong’s H5782, BLB, 2019)
The word “love” (NKJV) in all of those verses means “΄ahabah” pronounced [ă- have- ah] – love “between man and woman” or “sexual desire” (Strong’s H160, BLB, 2019)
The word “pleases” (NKJV) in all of those verses means “chaphets” – pronounced [ha – fates] “to delight in,” “take pleasure in,” or “to be pleased to do” “of God.” (Strong’s H2654, BLB, 2019)
So, when you look at those scriptures – this is what they say when we replace the words with the definitions:
Do not “arouse oneself,” “stir up,” or “incite” “sexual desire” until it “to be pleased to do” “of God.” (Strong’s H5782, BLB, 2019), (Strong’s H160, BLB, 2019), (Strong’s H2654, BLB, 2019)
When referring to natural romantic love and sexuality between a man and a woman – it warns not to stir up or awaken love and sexuality until it is the right time, meaning when it pleases GOD, and therefore benefits YOU. This means AFTER marriage takes place and it is only to be between a husband and wife. So, exposing one’s breasts is like giving a “love token” to just anyone, which God is totally opposed to. (Strong’s H1730, BLB, 2022)
IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS JUST AN OLD TESTAMENT TEACHING YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN!
Matthew 5:27-30 New American Standard Bible
“27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye makes you [a]stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you [b]to lose one of the parts of your body, [c]than for your whole body to be thrown into [d]hell. 30 If your right hand makes you [e]stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you [f]to lose one of the parts of your body, [g]than for your whole body to go into [h]hell.” (NASB)
Now, a woman/man who is immodestly dressed IS creating that temptation and ALSO committing adultery using someone else’s eyes to do so and creating pornography. YES, it is true! It can be any person male or female. If you also kiss someone or touch someone other than your husband or wife in an unGodly fashion – you have committed adultery in the eyes of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:25-27 Amplified Bible
“25 Brothers and sisters, pray for us.
26 Greet all the believers with a holy [a]kiss [as brothers and sisters in God’s family]. 27 I solemnly charge you by the Lord to have this letter read before all the [b]congregation.
Footnotes:
1 Thessalonians 5:26 Greeting other believers with a kiss on the cheek would be the equivalent of today’s handshake, pat on the back, or casual hug.
I solve this problem entirely and prefer to shake hands with both men and women.
The word of the Lord also says:
Romans 13:9-10 New American Standard Bible
“9 For this, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET,” and if
there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” 10 Love [a]does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (NASB)
So, if you dress immodestly are you doing wrong to your neighbor?
YES, you are – GREAT HARM. Unrepentant immodesty which leads someone else’s eyes to adultery or whoredom is also a sin. If you are married, it is the sin of adultery. If you are single, it is the sin of whoredom.
Coming to Christ requires a CHANGE in your lifestyle. Anyone who tells you differently is lying to you. Don’t listen to the voices of the false prophets who say you can stay the same and remain a part of His church. Dressing immodestly, is no different than you being a pole dancer at a STRIP club. Husbands are WRONG in allowing it too!
Wearing a blouse that shows cleavage or is open down to the waist is hypocrisy and sin. Wearing a dress with a bare back down to the top of the buttocks is hypocrisy and sin and that includes for wedding gowns. Wrapping your legs around a man in an unGodly fashion in public through dance whether it is your husband or someone else is hypocrisy and sin.
People in the entertainment industry are some of the worst offenders. Young women who are cheerleaders at football games and entertainers with their half-time programs are dressing in immodest outfits which is the same as pornography – enticing men and women into sin.
Many nursing mothers think that they don’t have to nurse in a modest way, but you do. No, you don’t have to go to the bathroom to do it, all you need is a light sheet or blanket to throw across your shoulder while you nurse. I did it myself in restaurants and everywhere and people never knew that I was nursing my baby.
The same rules for immodesty apply to men. In the New Testament, in the book of John, Chapter 21, the Lord Jesus came to the shore near where the disciples were fishing, but the men didn’t realize it was Christ who was there. The Apostle Peter was caught naked while fishing. As soon as he was aware that it was Christ on the shore, he jumped into the water in embarrassment knowing he was doing something wrong.
John 21: 2 – 8 King James Version
“2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.” (KJV)
Men who expose their muscles and bodies for everyone to see are also practicing immodesty, pornography, and narcissism too.
A dear friend of mine married a bodybuilder, their marriage did not last because he was more interested in his own body and showing it off to everyone else than he was in meeting the needs of his wife and daughter! His making of HIS type of pornography destroyed their marriage!
Wearing a T-shirt when swimming and long swim trunks down to the knee are more appropriate. For women, the Lord prefers a modest top with no cleavage showing and long swim bottoms down to the knee for women too. The Lord does NOT approve of short-shorts for women. God is calling Godly designers who will design Godly modest clothing and appropriate swimsuits for women and men now.
If you view others who are immodestly dressed in television, movies, plays, and the internet, if you buy clothing for yourself or others that promotes immodesty, if you manufacture immodest clothing, sell it, or invest in it, if you use or film immodest clothing in television, movies, films, and plays as an actor or actress, model, director, producer, or camera person – you are in sin.
What is even MORE damaging is the fact that Christians are
modeling to other people that these behaviors are okay. These are sins – they are NOT okay!
1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 New King James Version
“4 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given[a] us His Holy Spirit.” (NKJV)
So, if you are willingly showing cleavage and dressing in an immodest way – you are in sin too, because you are creating your own pornography. It is a form of enticement and delivers a message to the viewer that you are an easy sexual target. If you don’t want to be viewed or thought of as a whore, then stop advertising yourself as one and instead dress modestly. Immodesty IS a form of whoredom.
FRANKLY, EVEN REAL PROSTITUTES KNOW HOW TO COME TO CHURCH!
I once invited a young woman to church who had essentially been prostituting HERSELF – hopping from one sexual relationship after another. Some of her front teeth were missing, because her former boyfriend had punched her in the face! She came that Sunday morning in the best dress she had. It was a modest dress; SHE WAS COVERED and she came with her WHOLE HEART DESIRING GOD AND DESIRED TO TURN AWAY FROM SIN AND HER FORMER LIFESTYLE! I’m NOT saying a dress is necessary, but I AM saying both men and women should be modestly dressed. Even jeans and a round neck T-shirt CAN BE appropriate, but consider this: WHO DO YOU WANT TO BECOME? Do you want to be viewed as a potential leader in the future? Do you want to be seen as someone who has made a change in your lifestyle? Do you want to be seen as a professional? Then dress for church like the professional you WANT to become. Why? Because the relationships you form in church can be steps to be a better life, a better job, a potential career, and more educational opportunities. The Lord has provided beautiful clothing for many of us from thrift stores and HE CAN DO THE SAME FOR YOU!
Matthew 21: 31
“31…Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. ” (NIV)
2. YOU SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDING PROFANITY IN YOUR TESTIMONY!
Colossians 3:5 – 17 New International Version
“5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be
thankful. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (NIV)
Ephesians 5:3-6 New International Version
“3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.[a] 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.” (NIV)
Colossians 3:8 New American Standard Bible
“8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.” (NASB)
Exodus 20:7 New International Version
“7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.” (NIV)
James 1:23-26 New King James Version
“23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone [a]among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.” (NKJV)
Galatians 5:19 – 26 New International Version
“19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self- control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.” (NIV)
WHAT MORE CAN I ADD TO GOD’S WORD?
3.YOUR TESTIMONY SHOULD NOT HONOR OR GLORIFY REBELLION TO GOD! YOU MUST MAKE SURE A CLEAR DELINEATION IS MADE CONCERNING RIGHT AND WRONG! YOU MUST MAKE SURE THAT NOTHING CONDONING WITCHCRAFT, “MAGIC,” OR FALSE TEACHINGS IS PRESENT UNLESS THE TESTIMONY EMPHASIZES THAT IT IS A FALSE TEACHING AND A SIN!
I once attended a so-called “Christian” youth conference. One of the young men speaking bragged, chuckled, and even asked for confirmation from a friend in the audience about how he and the other teenager AS CHRISTIANS had come against a former Public-School teacher – and as he said, “worked her over.” It turns out the teacher was also a Christian and also a Pastor’s wife! He found that out at an event he attended later, when she was sitting in the front row with her husband! THIS YOUNG MAN WAS SPEAKING AS A SO-CALLED “LEADER” TO AN AUDITORIUM OF ABOUT 3,000 STUDENTS. HE WAS BRAGGING AND LAUGHING ABOUT THE WRONG BEHAVIORS!
GROUND RULES CONCERNING ANYONE GIVING THEIR TESTIMONY SHOULD BE SET BEFOREHAND AND THE INTERVIEWER (IF THERE IS ONE) SHOULD BE FOLLOWING THESE GUIDELINES TOO!
HERE IS A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE IF YOU NEED IT, BUT GETTING OUT OF SIN MEANS TAKING DOWN OR EDITING ANYTHING THAT IS NOT IN ALIGNMENT WITH GOD! ASK GOD WHAT HE WANTS EDITED, DON’T PRESUME OR ASSUME YOU KNOW. IF YOU DON’T, THE DEVIL WILL STILL HAVE AN ENTREE POINT INTO YOUR LIFE! I’VE PROVIDED A PRAYER OF CONFESSION IF YOU NEED IT. IT’S WRITTEN WITH THE PRONOUN “WE,” BECAUSE IF YOU SAY “AMEN” TO IT – I HAVE AUTOMATICALLY COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH YOUR PRAYER!
Lord Jesus Christ,
We confess all the times and ways we’ve used our spirit, souls, and bodies, mind, will, and emotions in opposition to the Lord Jesus the Christ – His kingdom, His word, and His will, either knowingly or unknowingly. We repent, and we renounce, all evil forces that have attached themselves to those sins. We ask that you tear down every and all evil strongholds, break every evil yoke, tie, and curse, and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Lord Jesus Christ, we believe that you are the Son of God and that you died on the cross to save us from our sins. We believe in your resurrection, and your resurrection life for ourselves. We ask that you come into our hearts – into our lives – as our Lord and our Savior. We ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the baptism by Holy fire. We ask that you would guide and direct our paths, protect us all the days of our lives, and help us to fulfill YOUR plans for our lives in Christ Jesus. We ask that you destroy what needs to be destroyed, keep what needs to be kept, change what needs to be changed, and create what needs to be created. We ask that nothing would be added to or taken away from your plans for our lives in Christ Jesus. We thank you Lord Jesus, we believe that we’ve already received the answers to our prayers. In the MIGHTY name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.