On today's episode of Apostolic Life in the 21st century, we are going to talk about a very important scriptural principle, and that principle is modesty.

Dr. David K. Bernard is with us today. He's the author of two books on holiness,

in search of holiness and practical holiness. And we're going to talk about this concept of

modesty and how we apply it to our lives here in the 21st century.

Dr. Bernard, the United Pentecostal Church is well known that we are part of the

Pentecostal. we'd call it the

holiness movement, and we have traditionally stressed the importance of this biblical virtue of

modesty. A scripture that we often cite, in fact, you can find it in many of our documents,

is 1 Timothy 2 verses 9 and 10, which says, in like manner that the women adorn themselves

in modest apparel with propriety and

moderation, not with braided hair, gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but which is proper

for women professing godliness with good works. So my question today is, what does modesty look like

in the world we're living in today? How do we apply it to our lives?

Let me focus on modesty, but also make some more general observations. The passage you just read,

if you go back one verse to verse 8, so 1st Timothy 2.8, he first addresses the men,

and he addresses common temptations that men have to struggle with.

And then he says, in like manner also, and then he addresses common temptations that women face.

And in this way, it's not denigrating women, but the objective fact that culture has higher expectations on women's appearance.

And you can argue that's really more men's fault because they are visually oriented

and they try to put their expectations on women.

So the reason I'm bringing this out is that Paul makes a gender distinction.

He addresses males and females knowing that we're not identical.

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