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1Pet.3:3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 3:4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious. 3:5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

Does the Holy Spirit excite the flesh? What of Christian men or woman whom put so much emphasis on the flesh, it's appearance, making it the pursuit of life, not only making it the pursuit, but the main event? Preaching about it as the essential part of the Good News? What a dramatic contrast to the apostle Peter's words spoken here where the fruit of Holy Spirit is shown in the adornment of the gentle and quiet spirit of the inward person!

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

No! Mistakenly, the Holy Spirit does not need our sinful flesh to look good for God, God is not selling the Holy Spirit in the prefect package. The Holy Spirit puts to the death the sinful flesh in Christ, and adorns the inward person in peace and gentleness in the fruit of Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not make a show in the flesh, nor does it excite our fallen flesh in the latest fade in dressing and make up. On the other hand, neither is the Holy Spirit concern with making a person dress in a certain way to fit into a particular religious organization, no! The issues in not the flesh, it is factually the inward person, but why?

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Simply put, the inward person is new, new in Christ, not the flesh, but the secret person of our heart, the new heart, born again as a child of God, where no lies exist by adornment, but rather the Christ whom both woman and men have become apart of. From this context, modesty is a given, because it is the heart of Christ, which cannot be legislated by religious doctrine, but is part of the new personality of the godly person.

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

There is so much deception by religious garb making a person look a certain religious way, that is, more righteous, but there is no deception in the secret inward person adorned with a quite gentle spirit - now is there? Truth is not a lie, or a deception, it is the same today as tomorrow, we are in the truth, Christ Jesus, and he is in us. There is nothing fake about that, it matters not one wit the vessel be beautiful on the outside the truth is what draws God's children found on the inside.

Galatians 6:12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Isa.53:1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? 53:2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.

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