PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 164: LET’S GET BACK THE GLORY, Part 6
FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 164 – LET’S GET BACK THE GLORY, Part 6
This is the last podcast on this subject of clothing. We look at more Scriptures today to see what God has to say. It's amazing how much God has to say about the everyday things of our lives, even about how we should dress. The Bible even talks about jewelry. And what about fashion for our little children?
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies. Well, I said I would look up the 1828 Webster Dictionary for the word “feminine.” So I did that, and here is the meaning. He ((Noah Webster) said the first syllable, when he's taking it from the Latin, the first syllable for feminine which is “fem” comes from the word “womb.” The last syllable comes from the word “man.” So it literally means, “fem-man,” or “womb-man.”
Now, that's interesting, isn't it? I think that is very true, because that's what we foundationally, creationally, are. We are a “womb-man.” Our womb is our most distinguishing characteristic as a woman. “Womb-man.” So, of course, we should embrace our womb because we are feminine. A man does not have a womb.
That is such a huge distinction between the male and the female. The male does not have a womb. A womb-man, the womb-man has a womb, a womb where she can conceive and grow a little baby, an eternal soul, and bring forth this child into the world. Such a beautiful privilege we have as women, as females, as feminine women.
We are talking about our feminine clothing, well, clothing, that was one of our points, that we should be feminine. I wonder if anyone has thought a little bit more about that? I think the more we see women being feminine, and dressing femininely in society, the more glorifying it will be to God. The more we will be standing up for truth in this very deceived age.
Oh, we are living in such a time of deception. We have to be very careful, because the Word of God says that in the end times, “even the elect will be deceived.” There is more and more deception coming up.
Our precious children are growing up in an age where transgender is considered normal. They are promoting it in schools. Wow, I don't think the public school is a very good place for our children today.
In the midst of all this abomination, which it is, of this transgender society, we should be shining like lights in this dark world. We shine by our facial expressions. We shine by the clothing we wear as we go out in the supermarket, and wherever we go. So, let's shine! Let's be who God created us to be! The more feminine we can be, the more God will be glorified.
The more males, the more manly, the better it is for them. The more feminine we are, is how God loves it, because it's the way He created us.
N0. 8: NOT DICTATED BY TH3 FASHION OF THIS WORLD
We are now up to point number eight. We should not be dictated by the fashion of this world. You all know Romans 12:1-2. I'll read it to you. Well, I'll quote it to you. Of course, I know these Scriptures by heart, and I'm sure you do too. Just say it with me as I'm saying it!
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Be not conformed. One translation says, “Don't let the world squeeze you into its mold.” Oh, how easily we get squeezed into the mold of the world and the fashion of the world! Most Christians today are squeezed into the mold of the fashion of this world.
I have seen women preachers preach in skinny jeans! In holey jeans! I beg your pardon? I mean, that's on the platform, speaking God's message. We're being squeezed into the mold of the fashion of this world. That is not the fashion of the Bible. It is not modest. And it is not feminine. It's dictated by this world.
What does it say in James 4:4? “Know ye that not the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” Today, most people are more friendly with the fashion of the world than they are in dressing in a way that's glorifying to God.
1 Peter 5:19: “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.” This whole world system, ladies, it lies in wickedness. It's the whole world. The ESV version says: “We know that we are for God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
So the fashion of this world, it's masterminded by the enemy! That's not hard to see when we look at the fashion of the world today. So what are we going by? Are we just going by the fashion of this world? Of course, it doesn't mean to say that you become old-fashioned and dress kind of drab and old-fashioned. No! That's not glorifying to God either.
I talked before, in my previous podcast, about how we are to dress beautifully. And you can dress modernly in a beautiful way, in a modest way, and in a feminine way. You can do it! And you don't have to look as though you've come from some past generation.
You can go to the internet. There are beautiful, feminine, and modest clothes that are glorious. They're actually beautiful! So when you go out, you're not going to be considered old-fashioned, you're going to be considered, wow—beautiful! People say, “Wow! Where did you get that dress? Oh, wow! That's beautiful!”
Have you noticed that, when you wear a beautiful dress out, people remark? Yes, they're so used to seeing just jeans and tops. When they see a beautiful dress, they love it! We are drawn to it.
1 John 2:15-17: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.”
So dearest ladies, can I encourage you? Don't be dictated by the fashion of this world, but at the same time, don't be drab, and boring, and old-fashioned. No! Oh, no, there's such scope. You can dress beautifully, and femininely, and modestly, and look like a model! Why don't you try it?
NO. 9: TRAIN YOUR CHILDREN WHILE THEY ARE YOUNG
Start the pattern of training your children when they are young. I think this is something we should think about because it's so easy to dress little children . . . as they're growing, we can go to the beach, and, ”Oh, yes, they can wear a bikini! They've got nothing to show. They're so innocent.” And we look upon them as innocent. Well, OK, what's wrong with this? Nothing, if they're showing nothing. But . . .
And then we can dress them in the fashion of this day, in their jeans and tops. Well, it's not wrong for them to have some jeans when they're out playing. But let's not let that become their uniform, dear ladies.
Why? Because they're going to grow up thinking, “That's how you dress!” If you let them wear bikinis and little scantily clad things, they'll grow up thinking, “Oh, well, when we go out to play, or when we go to the beach, we can wear scanty things.” They will continue the pattern that you begin in childhood.
So we have to watch now. Even though they don't have anything to show off, and they're very innocent, just watch. Be careful. I mean, you don't have to send them round in long dresses. But watch that you dress them in a way that they will think, “OK, this is how you dress.” And they will continue it into their teens.
Timothy Paul Jones writes, “The clothes that our children wear do not merely cover the nakedness of their flesh. They shape and reflect the contours of our children's souls.” So watch how they dress.
In fact, children, oh, have you noticed how children love to be princesses? I was talking in our last session about one of our pointers, DRESS LIKE ROYALTY. Do you know that if we kept being children, as children are allowed to dress, we'd most probably keep being princesses?
I have always had a dress-up box for my grandchildren. That's always been their most favorite thing. They would come and they'd go to the dress-up box. I'd have loads of lovely, sort of princess dresses for them. Not always already made into beautiful princess dresses, but I'd have old curtains, and lovely, white lacy things. They would be so creative.
And when they got dressed up, you would never find them wanting to dress like some “business woman” suit. Oh, no! They wouldn't want to do that. They wanted to be a queen. They wanted to be a princess. I have so many pictures of my grandchildren dressed like princesses.
Many of them, it was just all bits of material, and this and that. Oh, they'd adorn themselves gloriously, because that's what they want to be! It's inherent within them.
And then we grow up, and, of course, we get used to the fashion of this world. Then we begin to dress oppositely, don't we?
Anyway, let's carry on here.
NO. 10: GUARD AGAINST SHAME
We should guard against shame. I was reading the other day, Isaiah 20:4. It is about Egypt. “So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.”
Now, Egypt was not a godly nation. Egypt was a secular nation. But because their buttocks were uncovered, oh, goodness me! It was so shameful! Shameful to Egypt, which speaks of the world, and speaks of the worldly way. In the Bible, Egypt always speaks of the worldly way.
Colin and I were down at the beach this last week. Our lovely daughter Pearl, and her husband, gave us a gift of a few days at the beach. It was Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays, Christmas, all packed in together.
It was lovely to get to the beach. We love the beach because I was brought up just about on the beach. Not far to go to the sea. New Zealand is three islands North, South, and Stewart Island. So we have sea all around us. We would just go half an hour off to the beach. I was used to the beautiful rolling breakers.
Then we moved to Australia, and we lived in Surfer's Paradise! We were right on the beach! I would go down every morning to walk the beach and pray for our children. How I loved the breakers! I'd t grown up with the breakers and the pounding surf, the Pacific Ocean, and the more pounding it is, the more I loved it! All my life, I'd go into that surf and be pounded, and rolled over and over. Oh, goodness me! How I loved it!
But we were down at the beach, at the Gulf. Colin and I would go down to the beach, mainly in the early morning and in the evening. It wasn't so hot then. We could go for a walk, and I'd go for a swim. I did pop down in the day, but it was just so crowded, which is wonderful. Beautiful families, just families everywhere.
And yet, I couldn't believe it. Colin didn't even want to go down in the day at all, because there was just so much flesh showing. Now, I know, when you go to the beach, you're not going to be dressed in some dress, because I mean, I love to go into the surf, and into the waves.
But I dress appropriately. I've got on shorts and a top, you know, swimming shorts and top. I couldn't believe it. We could not believe how much flesh was showing. Everybody was totally exposing themselves. And I walked past one girl, I mean, not a young girl, not a little child—an older person with their full buttocks showing!
That's why I was arrested by the Scripture I read the other day. “Buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt,” and here was a girl, totally shameless! Absolutely, buttocks fully exposed, just a g-string. But no shame. It was just as though that was the most normal thing in the world!
What has happened? There's no shame? No one was ashamed of showing off everything? Wow! We, as Christian people, are the holy people of God: “Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14).
“There is a highway, and it is called the way of holiness” (Isaiah 35:8). What road are we walking on? Surely there should be shame at such exposure. Let's just watch that. Amen?
Revelation 16:15: “Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” Now, I believe that's talking spiritually, but it's also naturally. What you have in the spiritual, you have to have in the natural.
The word, “keepeth” means “he holds onto it, so he does not lose it, or give it up.” Wow! In this day especially, you'd better hold onto your clothes, so you don't lose them!
Revelation 3:18: “I counsel thee to buy of me . . . white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear.”
The psalmist in Psalm 4:2 asks: “How long will you turn My glory into shame?”
In fact, it’s interesting, in the Bible, there’s places where someone is called “naked.” King Saul was called “naked,” actually, before he became king, because he prophesied. It says he took off his clothes, and he prophesied. Help! Was he standing there, bare naked? No, he wasn’t. He would have still had on his undertunic.
It’s like when David danced before the Lord. His wife, Michal, she was so disgusted. “How dare you dance before all those women naked?” But he wasn’t naked. He still had on his undertunic, which was much more clothing than most people wear today.
So that was even considered naked, when they took off their outer garment, even though their undergarment still covered them. Yet today, goodness! They don’t even mind getting just about naked.
All right! Let’s go on.
NO. 11: DO NO WORRY ABOUT WHAT YOU WILL WEAR
We should not worry about our clothing, but trust God. What does it say in Matthew? We're not to worry about what we wear, and what we'll put on, because God clothes, He clothes the lilies of the field. He looks out for the little sparrows that fall (Matthew 6:25-34).
So, in all this talk about clothing, we don't need to be taking up with it too much. We can trust God. Yes, it's amazing how most of my clothing, actually, is somehow just provided. When our children were growing up, they loved it when people would bring a bag of clothes they were passing on, or a box of clothes.
Even our grandchildren still today, a friend will bring a bag of clothes, and they'll all get round in a circle, and they'll go through all the clothes and find out who wants what, and what suits this one, or suits that one. It's such fun!
In fact, when I was raising our children, I don't think we hardly bought clothes amongst our church fellowship. We would just pass on bags of clothes from when one child was growing out of their clothes. And then we passed them on. Everybody got clothed. It was all fun, and the children just loved doing it.
And still today, I have clothes passed on, or people give me this, or give me that. I'm amazed how God clothes me with such lovely clothing! It's amazing.
SHOULD WE WEAR JEWELRY?
All right. Now, I have here just one or two questions. How are we going for time? We're good. OK. Now, here's a little question. Not exactly clothing but it goes with our clothing. Should we wear jewelry?
Well, there are some Christians who don't believe in wearing jewelry. I'm not sure where they get that, because, what I like to do, as you know, ladies, no matter what the subject, I like to go and find out what God says about it.
So, does God say anything about jewelry? Yes, He does. So let's find out what He says. The very first mention of jewelry is back in Genesis when Abraham sent his servant to get a bride for Isaac. God led him, remember? God was faithful and he looked to God to lead him. He said those beautiful words: “I being in the way the Lord led me” (Genesis 24:27).
And he got to the place, and he found Rebekah. When he found her, it says that he gave to Rebekah the golden earring and two large gold bracelets. Back in those days, I think they had more silver and gold than we have today.
Then later on, when he was with the family and they were doing the arrangement to take Rebekah, it says in verse 53: “And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.”
Now this was in jewelry. So even back then, in Genesis, they were wearing beautiful jewelry made of silver, made of gold.
In Isaiah 61:10, we started this subject on this Scripture: “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.”
So there it is, ladies. The Bible talks about wearing beautiful jewels. And in that lovely passage I read you in Ezekiel 16 a couple of podcasts ago, you can read it, Ezekiel 16, a beautiful allegory of how God clothes us.
Ezekiel 16:9-10, in the New Living Translation. God says: “I gave you lovely jewelry, bracelets, beautiful necklaces, a ring for your nose, earrings for your ears, and a lovely crown for your head. And so you were adorned with gold and silver.” So, if God loves to adorn us with bracelets and necklaces, and gold and silver, it can't be wrong to wear jewelry. So here we go. We get what the Bible says.
Now, it does say here, I've always wondered about this, “a ring for your nose, and earrings for your ears.” Back in those days, they would not have had pierced noses and pierced ears, because the Jewish people did not believe in piercing themselves in any way. So they obviously would have had to use some little gadget to put it on them. But they didn't do that (pierce themselves).
Now, another question. Should we wear colored clothes? Well, there's some sections of Christianity who like to look very, very drab, and just wear dark colors. Now, is that biblical? Well, let's see what the Bible says again.
Oh, yes, we go to that same passage in Ezekiel. It says there in Ezekiel 16:13: “And your clothes were made of fine linen and costly fabric, and were beautifully embroidered.” That word, “embroidered,” in the Hebrew is riqmah. It literally means, “a variegation of color, embroidery, many colors, needlework.” So they obviously embroidered their clothes with beautiful colors. Other translations say: “I dressed you in a colorful garment. I dressed you in beautiful needlework.”
Then in Psalm 45:14, that's a beautiful passage. You must read that psalm later. It says: “She” (that's the bride) “shall be brought unto the king in raiment” (or a dress) “of needlework.” The Holman Translation says: “In colorful garments, she is led to the king.”
The high priest, he was clothed. God said he had to be clothed “for glory and for beauty” and his clothing was to be made of gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen (Exodus 30:2, 5). We see that God loves color! So, you can wear colors. It's not against God to wear beautiful colors. He created the colors.
I think it's feminine to wear colors. There are certain colors that are more feminine than others, so it's lovely to wear those colors, especially if they suit you, because different colors suit different people.
Did anybody ever hear about “Color Me Beautiful?” There was a season, oh, quite a few years ago, where people were encouraged to find the colors that suited them and wear those particular colors. I think it's a very good idea.
WHITE CLOTHES IN HEAVEN
But then I noticed something interesting. I'm going to finish with this. But when we go to Revelation and John is looking into the heavenly realm, we see that everybody is clothed in white. That's interesting, isn't it? I don't know, maybe we will wear some colors in heaven, too. But when John looked, he noticed everyone was in white. Let's start off with Jesus Himself.
Revelation 1:13: “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.” It was actually a white garment, and it was down to the foot. The Greek word that is used there literally means “down to the ankles.”
And then the angels. Revelation 15:6: “And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen.”
And then the angelic armies. Revelation 19:13-14: “And Jesus was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His Name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.”
The four and twenty elders in Revelation 4:4: “Round about the throne were clothed in white raiment.”
And then, I found seven different Scriptures about the saints, the Bride of Christ, and even the martyrs who were martyred for their faith. Let's read them.
Revelation 3:18: “I counsel thee to buy of me” (this was speaking to the church at Laodicea) “white raiment that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear.”
Revelation 3:4-5, speaking to the church at Saudis: “Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before His angels.”
The New Living Translation says: “All who are victorious will walk with Me in white.” Now, stop the press! Wow! Because that word “overcome,” and “victorious” is the same word in a Scripture I read the other day. Also, of heaven. John was looking up into heaven, and this is what he saw.
This is Revelation 15:2-4. I've just memorized these Scriptures because they are so powerful. So I thought I would talk about them at this moment. “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory” (there's that word, those who overcame, those who were victorious).
In this Scripture, it says:
“And them that had gotten the victory
OVER the beast, and
OVER his image, and
OVER his mark, and
OVER the number of his name,
stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints. Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy Name? For Thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for Thy judgments are made manifest.”
I read this Scripture the other day. Wow! It really got to me. And I have since memorized it. I believe that everyone of us should memorize this Scripture. I believe we should teach it to our children, and I believe we should get them to memorize it, because we need to be those, in this hour, who are overcomers.
We have to be getting ready, because we already have some practice runs, ladies, about overcoming. These practice runs have showed us that it is getting nearer to the time when we will face the mark of the beast, where we cannot buy or sell if we don't take that mark. Most probably, we may be killed if we don't take that mark.
But we dare not take that mark, for anyone who takes that mark will not get into heaven. And therefore, we have to learn to overcome now. I just read, those who overcome, “Those who are victorious, will walk with Me in white.” And here John saw the ones who overcame.
What did they overcome? They got victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, which is, and we all know, 666.
Now, we know we're going to facing this in times to come. We've got to prepare our children. They will face this time, I believe. So we must prepare them. We must have this in our spirit. We must have this spirit of overcoming. And dear, precious ladies, if we don't have the spirit now, to overcome, how will we overcome in that hour? Already we are facing a . . . we face this vaccination, which is well-known. Its name is luciferase, and the number is 2020-060606. That is the patent.
Now, I don't think we have yet reached the mark of the beast but, my, these things show that we are getting closer. If we are not able to overcome with these things we're facing now, how will we overcome when we do face the mark of the beast, and his image, and his mark? And the number of his name?
So, lovely ladies, take that Scripture. Look it up. Revelation 15:2-4. Memorize it as a family. Say it out loud together every day, so you get it. So you even get that in your spirit, and you begin to exercise your courage muscle. You begin to exercise it and take courage. The more you do, the more you will be ready.
OK, so time's going on, so let's just finish these last few Scriptures I found about walking in white.
Revelation 6:9-11: “I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God” (most probably because they didn't take the mark) “and for the testimony which they held.” They didn't let go! They didn't cave in! They didn't give into tyranny. They held.
“And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them.” The word “robes” is stole in the Greek. It is a long-fitting gown and the mark of dignity. It's a long robe.
Interesting. Here we are on earth, and I don't believe we have to. . . lovely long dresses are beautiful to wear, but you don't have to wear them round every day. We wear dresses that are not short. We certainly don't want to do that. I think they should be over the knee.
But there will come a time when we are going to have long robes. That's what it says. That's what John saw. That is the word, stole, this long-fitting gown. Actually, that's interesting, isn't it? A long-fitting gown isn't just baggy, it was fitting, and a mark of dignity. Anyway, that's what he saw in the heavenly realm.
And I've just got a couple more. Revelation 7:9: “After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes (stole - these beautiful long, white, glorious, fitting gowns are a mark of dignity) and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.”
Go down to verses 13-14: “One of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? . . . And he said unto me, these are they which come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Revelation 19:7-9, last one. “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.”
Well, that's what John saw in the heavenly realm, these glorious white robes. But here on earth, as we see in the Bible, we can still wear color. So may the Lord bless his us. Sorry, I've gone a little bit over time. Let's pray.
“Dear Father, we thank You we have Your Word to guide us, to show us the way. And Lord, as we have been talking about clothing in these last few sessions, I pray that You will give us soft and tender hearts to listen to You, to listen to Your Word, Lord God, that we will be women who glorify Your Holy Name in our clothing.
Lord God, as we go out into this world, help us to go out glorifying Your Name, dressed beautifully, dressed femininely, dressed modestly, bringing glory to You. I ask that You will show us the way and teach us. In Jesus' Name, Amen.”
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