A. Question: Where does true holiness began? Inwardly..... with the changing of the heart.
1. Matt. 23:25-28 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and the platter
that the outside of them may be clean also. Jesus was making reference to the heart.

B. What does the bible say about the heart and why it needs changed?
1. Jer. 17:5-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
2. Matt. 12:34-37 ...for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

C. Question: What kind of heart does God expect his people to have? A pure and perfect heart.
1. Matt. 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Which means a clean heart.
2. Question: Can we have a perfect heart?
a. Ps. 101:1-8 I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
b. 2nd. Kings 20:1-3 ...I have walk before thee in truth and with a perfect heart.

D. Question: What does laying up treasures have to do with the heart?
1. Matt. 6:19-21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

E. Question: What proceeds from a wicked heart?
1. Heb. 3:12 Unbelief...
2. Matt. 15:10-20 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts...

F. How can we be sure that our heart is pure and perfect?
1. Eph. 6:5-9 ...doing the will of God from the heart.
2. 2nd. Cor. 9:5-7 for god loveth a cheerful giver.

G. Question: What is the first thing that God commands from his people?
1. Mark 12:28-31 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.

A. True holiness is making a change, both inwardly and outwardly. To change inwardly, you must change the heart and to change outwardly you must change the appearance.

B. Mat. 23:25-28 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and the platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

C. This study will be on the hair. First, for the man.

1. 1st. Cor. 11:1-4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. Question: What is the covering the scripture is referring to?
a. Verse 15 ..... for her hair is given her for a covering.
b. Verse 7-12 Why is it wrong for a man to have long hair? The hair is given as a token or sign of submission and subjection to authority. Second, it shows a distinction between the man and the woman as in male and female. Its part of the Holiness.
c. Verse 14 It is not natural for a man to have long hair.
d. Question: How long is long? The bible does not give a length, so the pastor has to make that determination, and the standard for men here is that the hair is not to come down upon the tops of the ears and onto the collar of the shirt.

D. Now, what does the scripture say about women's hair?
1. Verse 5-6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.
a. Shorn: means to cut or clip. A shaved head for a women was a sign of shame.
2. Verse 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
a. Comely: means proper. It is improper for a woman even to pray unto God uncovered.
3. Verse 15 Question: What is meant by long hair? The teaching is not length, but uncut hair.
4. Verse 16 The church does not observe customs.

E. Question: Why is hair so important to the church.
1. Verse 1-4 Hair shows a sign of authority and submission.

F. Question: What does the bible say about broided and plaited hair?
1. 1st. Tim. 2:8-10 This is Paul's teaching to the church. " not with borided hair "
a. Broided: means to intertwine, to make a plait.
2. 1st. Peter 3:1-6 This is Peter's teaching to women with unbelieving husbands.
" Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair "
b. Plaiting: Means: Elaborate braiding of the hair; An elaborate gathering of one’s hair into knots. Both Strong’s and Thayer’s definition makes no reference to intertwining gold and silver into it to make it an elaborate braid.

A. Mat. 23:25-28 Jesus teaching that Holiness is both inwardly and outwardly.

B. 1st Tim. 2:8-15 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with Shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.
1. Verse 9: In this scripture Paul instructs women how to dress and not to dress. First, how to!
a. Adorn: to put in proper order, or to decorate.
b. Modest: of good behavior, well arranged Webster's: disliking praise, publicity, avoiding self-exposure, not outstanding or standing out.
c. Question: What is the biblical definition of modest? The new testament does not say.
d. Question: What was modest for women in the Old Testament?
Deut. 22: 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man …
2. Shamefacedness: bashfulness (towards men) modest (toward God).
3. Sobriety: soundness of mind, self-control.

C. Now, Paul instructs women how not to dress.
1. Not with broided hair, which is the same as plaited hair. ( Covered last week )
2. Or gold, or pearls: Decorating yourself with jewelry, for show or to impress someone.
a. Isa. 3:16-26 A prophecy concerning women's jewelry being taking away.
b. Question: Wedding rings, is it wrong to wear them? No, if worn to symbolize marriage, based upon the parable of the prodigal son. Luke 15:22 …and put a ring on his hand.
3. Or costly array: Buying clothing that you cannot afford just to impress someone.
4. Question: Cosmetics, is it wrong to wear make-up? Yes.
a. 2nd Kings 9:29-37 Jezebel, just the opposite of what Christian women should look like.
5. There are two women in the bible that women can pattern their life after, Jezebel and Sarah.
a. 1st Peter 3:1-6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are....
6. There are two church standards to chose from:
a. One is found in 1st Tim. 2 and 1st Pet. 3....................The True church.
b. The other is found in Rev. 17:1-5.........................................The Worldly Church.