NON-Acceptable!
Billy Graham, like Jerry Falwell, has been used by the Lord to
persuade people to turn to Christ and live godly lives.
However, like Falwell formulating the phrase Moral MAJORITY
when Christ Himself stated that most people are on the broad and easy road to destruction (i.e. eternal torture in outer-darkness never-ending hellfire), and only a remnant of the sons of Israel will be saved.....so Billy Graham's theme song Just As I Am
has its limitations.
Does God really accept us JUST? As We Are???
First off, IF we were truly just, we would not have to bear with Graham's 'you-are-sinners' relentless and obnoxious tirade against others and not himself. I realize the inadequacies of our English language, and the word "just" should be instead rendered: "merely" or even "injust" so as to be sung:
Injust I am
Without one plea...
But the frequently-mopheaded massive crusade crowds throng to hear the crusade choir sing about how just everyone is presumed to be.
Admittedly, clean-shaven-and-why? Billy did require repentance to come forward.
Repentance?
How does that jive with "God accepts you as you are?"
DOES He, in fact, do so? Really?
Has your dad or mom ever told you to wash your filthy dirty hands before
eating at the dining room table? Have they ever demanded that your shower
your intolerably stinky body before putting on your Sunday dress clothes?
Acceptable as you are?
How "acceptable as you are" would you actually be (or NOT be!) walking into
a church, police station, film-showing theater, or shopping center blasting
loud rap noise on your boombox, spraying everyone you see with shaving
cream, shouting obscenities at everyone around you, walking in totally
nude or bottomless, lighting and tossing firecrackers around, etc. etc.?
Acceptable as you are?
Those who claim such pseudo-divine false acceptability in their
self-righteous holier-than-thou non-humble fake humility and quiet
pseudo-morality arrogance quickly find that most persons and especially
they themselves are anything but acceptable "as they are" in their
partial immodesty and semi-indecency. Even a sketchy reading of the
many condemnations by the prophets of not only the Old but even the New Testament clearly give the impression that everyone is obviously NOT acceptable as they are and in NO way O.K. NO one who intends to persist in tolerating abortionists, feminist sexist, homosexuals, evolutionists, cultic religionists, anti-Ten-Commandments libertarians, anti-Law "Freedmen," judaizers, will make it into heaven. NO one! They are NEVER acceptable as they are, nor will they ever become so!
Which gets us to the second part of this webpage.
How To Neutralize Summertime Immodesty Harassment
and
Partial-Indecent-Exposure Terrorism
As serious people with open minds and hearts read the Bible more and more,
and eventually in its entirety (in the KJV, RSV, NASV, NKJV, and other
translations), they automatically become convinced that the recurrent annual
and customary demonic-and-worldly summertime exposure of LOOSE long hair (especially of non-chignoned or non-ponytailed or non-shawled girls and women), naked arms (bared by sleeveless garments), bared midriffs, nude legs (bared by shorts, shortened and slitted skirts shortened to any length), and sockless sandal-footedness....are of Satan.
So, should Christian confront such? If so, how should they confront it?
Should they avoid such? Avoid even the appearance of such? Not look for
such? Avoid looking around for it? Not look twice, but look elsewhere?
There are certain Scripture-based mindsets, mentalities, and techniques
of vital importance.
In the Old Testament, Solomon instructed us to look straight ahead and
neither to the left nor the right. He meant that literally!
That itself will save us a lot of needlessly encountering [immodest] lasciviousness we do not have to observe around us - and should
not observe around us! Holy ignorance is bliss and NOT stupidity nor insanity, and the Holy Spirit has dependable trustworthy ways to inform us of any "news" we need to know, see, or hear about without us having to nauseate, sicken, and pollute ourselves sticking our noses into the senseless stench of the same-as-indecent-porn four-lettered word for both dung and feces.
He reminded us that a fool looks towards the ends of the earth, with the
inference that looking down where we are walking will prevent stumbling,
with the further benefit of us not seeing and thus not being enticed
by summertime immodesty in the distance.
Next, there are many Bible verses warning us to not fear man nor woman
(i.e. humanity) but instead fear God alone. God will never surprise-attack
us with semi-indecent immodesty as He walks out of the store door or we turn the corner. God's sacred saints do not adjust their summertime styles and fashions to the silly asinine whims of pathetically-laughable immodest demons and those demented crazies possessed by such, but consistently dress in accord with Numbers 5:18, II Samuel 13:18, Proverbs 5:19, Song 7:1-5, Isaiah 3:17, Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 47:1-4, Jeremiah 2:25, and I Timothy 2:8-15 in mind [whether or not they are blasphemed by godlessly-hateful bigots as prudish Bible-thumpers and legalistic/proof-texting old-fashioned mentally-ill nitpickers obsessed with sweating the "small" stuff].
Diversions can be either good or evil. To turn away from immodesty and
instead concentrate on someone or something non-immodest is a holy, sacred,
and expected-by-the-Lord evasion and diversion technique.
As happens frequently in football games, to use someone decent or something
benign as a block to block the view of whoever is imposing themselves
immodesty (which lurid and obscene immodest in effect attempt to subtly or overtly shove their shamefully-hideous indecency in our non-soliciting faces) is another crucial (but not necessarily "critical") evasion technique - not us good guys and gals exhibiting rudeness, paranoia, nor impoliteness but rather wisdom and Scripturally obedient to required temporary hiding until the evil is past. Remember: those authentically wicked who are either carelessly or deliberately imposing their NON-innocent, they-know-FULL-well-what-they're-doing semi-immodesty against us are the rude and impolite ones - hung up on ridiculous-style/absurd-fashion guttermindness as porn-in-action public-nuisance offenders!
Like in wartime combat with soldiers invaribly getting wounded and shot
up in the line of fire, the lewd bullets of those nonchalantly roaming
around as harlot-lookalikes eventually have their devastating defiling
effect against the innocent and pure, which requires most of God's elect to find erotic relief in the sanctity of private-bedroom total nudity with full
copulative exchange massage during marriage.
One more thing.
Peripheral vision can be useful. During summertime, a peripheral glance
at what seems to perhaps be some humans (of whatever gender)
flaunting parts of their exposed carcasses serves as a warning: It does
NOT matter whether the questionable human object is either a male OR
female in sleevesless, slackslessness, or sockslessness.....both
men and women who do so are PERVERTS - and therefore never
worth testing out by looking directly at them. You might overlook some
good people among the immodest fools (and - lamentably - the companion of fools does suffer some non-intended harm by default), but the Lord will provide both safe and legal escape plus communication for and with who should be communicated with amongst the horde of worthless people who should not be communicated to nor with. Understandably, "because [immodest] wickness is multiplied, the love of many will grow cold." But do not fret, because in these latter days, it simply goes with the territory. And God WILL provide, as we persist in purity with patience!