Are You Decent?

I Corinthians 14:40 - Let all things be done decently and in order.  I haven't heard the word DECENT spoken in a long time!  To me, decent means to be "respectable, modest quality or size, or presentable."

Why, today you see women and young teens at the pool or beach wearing teeny-tiny bikinis,  or Hollywood women wearing dresses slit down the front to the waist and backless.  Sex is flaunted at the movies, on TV, and even in commercials.  Nothing is left to the imagination anymore!
Predators prey on the internet--seducing young children and lonely women.  Girls are exposing themselves on Face Book for all the world to see.  Sex....sex...sex!!!  As the old slogan said, "Image is everything!"

Sure, I grew up in the "Ozzie and Harriet, I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, Dick Van Dyke Show" era!  Corny?  Yeah!  But morally clean, decent shows--with family values!!!  Now the American family has drastically deteriorated in this country; morals have hit an all-time low. "Sex In The City" and  "Two And A Half Men" (and most shows on TV) have corrupted the cable and dish networks!

In Ephesians 6: 12 it says that we are at war with the "powers that are in the air."  WAKE UP, people....those powers in the air are the AIRWAVES....those electric signals that show up on our TV screens and computer screens....on our IPods and cell phones!  If satan knocked at our front door, we wouldn't let him come in....BUT we allow him access through our TV's and all these other means of communication and entertainment!!!

The IMAGES we see, day-after-day...hour-after-hour have corrupted our carnal minds!  You see it affecting the church, too.  They've become "entertainment centers," the dress attire is rather risque or disrespectful!  Dirty jeans, short-short skirts, and the like are common to see in the church these days.  We're looking more-and-more like "the world!"  We're to be IN the world, but not OF (like) the world!!!

We're not to be bound by THE LAW, but we need to get back to some DECENCYand ORDER so that the world will come to RESPECT those who call themselves "Christians."