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At 10:56 PM 2/22/98 EST, you wrote:
>> His name is Bill.  He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it,
jeans
>> and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of
>> college.
>
>It's too bad poor Bill doesn't stand a chance in the world of making it to 
>Heaven until he graduates and can afford "modest" clothing of a certain
>type and fabric, and of a certain length.
>
>Sounds silly, doesn't it?!?
>


	Bill can't find a Salvation Army thrift shop to get himself some decent
clothes?  There are no second hand stores or Good Will stores in this big
city your talking about?

	Yeah, Bill has a chance to make it to Heaven, because when Bill gets the
Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, he's going to get holiness convictions
about modesty, and the Lord himself will not only change his heart, but
make a way for him to get what he needs.  The danger is people who are
supposed to be established saint who are going to encourage him to override
the voice of God, sear his conscience, and ignore the conviction.

	I would be the LAST person to "club" Bill "over the head" with standards.
When God speaks to the heart, it isn't necesary.  But your outward
appearance matters, otherwise, we wouldn't have direct, specific
commandments in the word of God about it.  Do commandments about modest
apparel (and everything else) not matter?  Pray tell, what OTHER
commandments can we "blow-off" and still be okay?

	I remember sitting in P.E. class with shorts on...feeling naked.  There
was no pastor telling me ANYTHING against it--but the Holy Ghost on the
inside was speaking loud and clear.  I was the only person saved in my
family, and I was just a teenager.  I couldn't obtain sweat pants.  I
literally wore long underwear  under my gym shorts (and took all kinds of
mocking and scorn for it) till I could do something else.  Again there was
no church or minister telling me to do this...in fact, one minister even
told me gym shorts were all right.  But when God speaks, there is no
substitute for obedience.