All of those things in themselves are not evil.

To put a ring on a woman's finger is not evil.

For a woman to wear a sash is not evil.

But to overdo it, to adorn for the sake of wantonness or lust or flaunting wealth is evil and particularly so among

the congregation of the righteous. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. You may have never considered the potential problems caused by your volumes about your attitude towards God and can even distract the worship of others.

Well, with Mother's Day a few days away here in the U.S.

John MacArthur is going to show how the issue of dress and specifically how a woman dresses and specifically how a woman dresses became a disruption in the

Ephesian Church and it can still cause problems today. It's a more important topic

than you may have realized as you'll see in today's look at God's High calling for women.

So stay with us now as John begins the lesson.

Now in looking at our passage, I want you to note there are six features in regard

to the role of women in the church that the apostle deals with, their appearance,

their attitude, their testimony, their role,

their design, and their contribution.

Since clothing is an issue of some importance with the fairer sex.

Paul begins with a discussion of their appearance and that is the first point

that I want you to see. He discusses their appearance. So Paul hits at that very directly

and look what he says. First he deals with braided hair. Now this idea of plating, the old word is plating,

PLAITI-N-G, we don't exactly know specifically what that was.

It was some way of weaving the hair.

Does this mean it's a sin to put pigtails on your little girl or braid your hair?

No.

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