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Yes, that’s the sheriff from Robin Hood: Men In Tights.
No, please don’t watch that without the Clearplay DVD.
–J.B.–

I believe your vision, Bill.
–J.B.–

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
–1 Peter 3:3-4 (ESV)–

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Elizabeth Rice Handford, Your Clothes Say It for You.

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. ²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” ³² This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
–Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV)–

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Dr. John R. Rice, Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives, and Women Preachers.

Elizabeth Rice Handford, Me? Obey Him?

Follow the way of love 
and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, 
especially prophecy.
–1 Corinthians 14:1 (NIV)–

Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.
–Hebrews 3:15 (NIV)–

In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
–Acts 2:17 (NIV)–

Daniel had a dream,
and visions passed through his mind 
as he was lying in bed. 
He wrote down the substance of his dream.
–Daniel 7:1 (NIV)–

Do not quench the Spirit. 
Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; 
hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
–1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 (NIV)–

But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”
–1 Corinthians 14:24-25 (NIV)–

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Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

—. The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift of Prophecy (Regal, 2008).

Dr. Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy (Crossway, 2000).

Dr. Etzel Cardeña, ed. Varieties of Anomalous Experience (APA, 2004).

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1910).

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream (Treasure House, 1997).

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations (Walking Barefoot Ministries, 2007).

Douglas Oss, Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? (Zondervan, 1996), p. 168.

Jasper Ridley, John Knox (Oxford University Press, 1968).

Samuel Rutherford, A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist, pp. 42-43.

Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025). This is a really unique book. Written by a hard nosed skeptic, former atheist, and leading Christian apologist. Supports an evidence-based supernatural worldview.

Originally from here.
[Written by the wife.]

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Hast thou also them that hold
the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes,
which thing I hate.
–Revelation 2:15 (KJV)–

I was enlightened while trying to explain this: I see that He credited Ephesus for hating the practice of immorality, and false Christianity: which is nothing more than hypocrisy. Jesus was still preaching the same message to the angels of these churches as from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, 6, and 7. Jesus wants our attention to be on the Father, and on Jesus Himself, because He knows how much He cares for us, and no other god can say that. The church of Pergamum was guilty of having some that actually held to the teaching of the Nicolaitans, which was probably teaching things such as sexual sin like movies, jokes, and impure clothing as okay, because “After all, we have the grace of God now, because Jesus died on the cross,” or other teachings like, “It doesn’t matter if you serve other gods than the God of Jesus and the Bible, because after all, Jesus is a Lord of love, and there’s no condemnation for those in Christ.” Both of these statements are ridiculously untrue. The Scriptures are being interlaced and woven in to prove a false thing that Jesus would not have promoted. Anyone who has converted to Christ and has Him residing in the throne of their hearts, with Him as the boss of their soul, could tell you that God wants us to be closer to Him because of Jesus’ blood. Or that we should only serve God, with the necessity of being holy, just as when Jesus was tempted by the devil to have all dominion, which was a lie, and Jesus responded, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve’” (Matthew 4:10).

This is food for thought, but I went through a period upon being newly born again as a young adult, that I could start to see through the sins of my soul, the sins of the church, and the wretchedness I felt in attempting to worship God, when my heart felt blotted by the sins of my flesh. I had to repent of sin, and of my flesh (see Romans 7-8).

Here are some verses that teach us what’s right! We are not to use God’s grace as a means towards ungodliness! On the contrary, because of Jesus’ coming to earth, and dying and raising to life, now we can actually be holy in our hearts, immediately having access to God! “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” (Romans 6:1-2). “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:11-13).

I know better; and so do Jesus’ people. We know better than to do that. We deserve the rebuke.

God save us all from practicing lawlessness like the world in sexual immorality, pluralism, and putting too much priority on the things of the world, temporal and passing as they are. What’s highly valued among men is still “detestable in the sight of God” (Luke 16:15). Again, we are not to condone wicked teaching, but hold all in suspicion that don’t preach the holy Word of God right, not handling it rightly. The hour is late, and it’s no time for fornication, adultery, impurity, and perversion. May God heal the church in Jesus’ name!

This is such a powerful, excellent sermon on spiritual warfare; and resisting the devil with Bible knowledge and faith in the Bible, like Jesus did in Matthew 4.
–J.B.–