Most often when people are defending their sin they say 'Well God looks upon the heart'. This is a true statement but the bible says God will judge our deeds, not judge the heart. Therefore God is concerned with what's on the outside as it is a manifestation of what is on the inside.

1. GOD LOOKS UPON THE OUTSIDE
Many professed Christians claim (using 1 Samuel 16:7)
that God does not look upon the outside and only looks
upon the heart, thereby inferring that God does not care
about the external appearance or actions of His people.
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look
not on his countenance, or on the height of his
stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD
seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the
outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the
heart.
Samuel liked what he saw on the outside but God did not
like what He saw on the inside and God does not say he
cares only about the heart. He says that He can ‘see’ the
heart; whereas man cannot and both the Old and New
Testaments give ample evidence that God cares about
externals.
Does God examine the heart?
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the
reins, even to give every man according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his doings.
Psalm 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come
to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God
trieth the hearts and reins.

2. Proverbs 17:3 The fining pot is for silver, and the
furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Yes God examines the heart and it’s what the heart
produces that God will reward or punish.
He ‘tries’ the heart. He Sees it’s obedience and
submission, it’s disobedience and rebellion.
What is in the heart will soon show on the outside.
Let’s look at the beginning of time when God cared
enough about the outside to cover Adam and Eve’s
nakedness:
Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Isaiah 47:2-3 shows that uncovered locks (hair) and leg
(including lower leg) reveal nakedness and shame.
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy
locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over
the rivers. Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy
shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will
not meet thee as a man. (Isaiah 47:1-3)
It’s sinful to look upon the nakedness of another (who is
not your spouse). (See Exodus 28:42; Exodus 32:25;
Leviticus 18; Genesis 9:22-23; Habakkuk 2:15)
Many people do not know that the Bible often calls
improper covering of the body- nakedness. Most often it
referred to the wearing of undergarments (in public) of
which the undergarments of that time were much more

3. than most of the external clothing worn today. This
explains the nakedness of Saul (1 Samuel 19:24) of David
(2 Samuel 6) and Isaiah (Isaiah 20) and Peter (John 21:7).
The Israelites, God’s chosen people, were also instructed
on the manner which they were to take care of their
outside appearance.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that
they make them fringes in the borders of their
garments throughout their generations, and that they
put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue
(Numbers 15:38)
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto
a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment:
for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy
God (Deuteronomy 22:5)
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of
woollen and linen together. (Deuteronomy 22:11)
And these are the garments which they shall make; a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a
broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall
make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his
sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's
office. (Exodus 28:4)

4. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
(Leviticus 19:28)
18
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and
shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall
not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer
their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their
heads. (Ezekiel 44:18, 20)
Jacobs family cleaned themselves, changed their clothing
and removed their jewelry before going with him to Bethel.
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that
were with him, Put away the strange gods that are
among you, and be clean, and change your
garments: 3
And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and
I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me
in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way
which I went. 4
And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which were in their hand, and all their
earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them
under the oak which was by Shechem. (Genesis 35:3-
4)
Jewelry/outward adornment is associated with Baal
worship.
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein
she burned incense to them, and she decked herself
with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after
her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

5. (Hosea 2:13)
Circumcision is an eternal sign of a covenant agreement.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought
with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant. 14
And the uncircumcised man child whose
flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall
be cut off from his people; he hath broken my
covenant. (Genesis 17:13-14)
Read Isaiah 3 and the sinful pride associated with the
external adornments of the ‘daughters of Zion’.
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of
Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks
and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go,
and making a tinkling with their feet: 17
Therefore the
LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of
the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their
secret parts. 18
In that day the Lord will take away the
bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet,
and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21
The
rings, and nose jewels,
22
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

6. 23
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and
the vails.
24
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet
smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a
rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and
instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and
burning instead of beauty.
Proverbs 7 makes a distinct judgment of the clothing she
wore.
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of
an harlot, and subtil of heart. (Proverbs 7:10)
In the New Testament we are shown as well, that outside
appearance is very important.
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; But (which becometh women professing
godliness) with good works. (1 Timothy 2:9-10)
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her
head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is
even all one as if she were shaven. 6
For if the woman
be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a
shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be
covered.
(1 Corinthians 11:5-6)
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her
head because of the angels. (1 Corinthians 11:10)

7. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man
have long hair, it is a shame unto him (1 Corinthians
11:14)
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting
on of apparel (1 Peter 3:3)
We see how the bride of Christ will be adorned…
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in
fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints (Revelation 19:8)
vs the harlot…
So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having
seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with
gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden
cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
her fornication (Revelation 17:3-4)
Saints will be clothed in white robes
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no
man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms
in their hands (Revelation 7:9)

8. And white robes were given unto every one of them;
and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for
a little season, until their fellowservants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should
be fulfilled. (Revelation 6:11)
God’s Word says He will judge our deeds (not our heart)
and our deeds are an outward manifestation of obedience
in our hearts. God looks upon the external fruit of a
believer in the matter of obedience to His Word…
(Hebrews 5:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Revelation 22:14;
Matthew 16:27; Romans 2:6; 2 Corinthians 5:10; John
14:15; Matthew 7;21; Revelation 20:13)
...and avoiding sin.
(Deuteronomy 28; Galatians 5:16; James 4:17; Matthew
5:48; 1 Peter 1:15; James 1:27;1 John 3:4)
As we read God’s Word in full context, we clearly see that
God DOES look upon the outside in both appearance as
well as our deeds of obedience.
Seek God’s will and ways through His Holy Word and feel
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