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Originally Posted by rdp
Very good, which is precisely the reason we don't decorate God's tabernacle...just as they didn't the OT tabernacle! You're getting closer.....
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Wow have you not read
Revelations 21 the tabernacle of God and new Jerusalem (the bride of Christ), Or
Ezekiel 1 Even the tabernacle in the OT had specific instructions as to the outside as to protect the Glory of the inside. God loves beutiful things else he would not have created those things as he did. The differance is that God does not want us to be wrapped up in those things. Does not make them sin.
Are we to dress gaudily? no. On the same note dressing up for church can be likend to the same thing Paul and Peter were teaching against. We are to be ourselves before God. We do not respect the church building by dressing up to go to church as we are the temple of God, when we are dirty after a hard days work or right after a shower. LOL God does not look at the outside thank God. He lookes at the heart of the man. Instead of looking at whether some one wears a bit of gold we should instead the teaching the true nature of a christian. The rest will take care of itself in time.
We consentrate so much on changing the outside and it does not change what a person thinks.
God did not put us hear to dictate how a person dresses, he put us hear to tell the world that he came to earth to pay the price for our sinful nature so that we can have our relationship restored with him. When this has been completed in the lives of the indiviual God can and will bring about the needed changes he desires. He did not put his minstery in the body to dictate to (his children) how to live. We are here to equip the saints to do the work to ministry to the lost.
I think we need to quit trying to save the saved, and turn to the lost.
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