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(which becometh women professing godliness)

with good works.” Now, when we come to the

Scriptures, the very first issue that was

addressed in Genesis 3 after the fall was the

issue of modesty. It was the issue of clothing.

We'll talk about that a little bit later. Adam and

Eve made aprons and God made coats. So God

is the originator and designer of clothing. Adam

and Eve chose fig leaves, but God chose

otherwise. So in his fallen nature, man does not

know how to dress himself. We say that our

children can't dress themselves. Well, adults

also cannot dress themselves properly with a

fallen nature.

Modesty is a lost virtue in our society. It is a

forgotten virtue. Brother Avery and I were

talking a few weeks back. We were looking at a

passage one Wednesday night when Josiah the

king came to the throne and they began

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