Do you have the right clothing?

• Mt. 26:65; 27:28, 31; 27:59; 28:3 [Mk. 16:5; Lk. 24:4]; Lk. 23:11; Jn. 19:23-24; 20:5; Rev. 1:13
• One of the way God teaches us is through clothing.
• Most will recall how Adam and Eve both sinned and “sewed together fig leaves” (Gen. 3:7).
• 64:6 – SLIDE.
  1. Isaiah was a pretty good guy. He was a prophet. With God’s help He wrote a lengthy book.
  2. In the middle of Isa. 64:6 is where we read about clothing.
  3. Isaiah spoke of a “polluted garment.”
  4. There are some garments which are foul – we don’t want to be anywhere near them.
• If we do not look carefully at Isa. 64:6, we will miss a very important point.
• SLIDE
• Isaiah said “our”
  1. Many want come to God with “their righteousness.”
  2. More than a few believe they will be saved from sin because of the good they did.
• It is a very fine thing to remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• The resurrection is meaningless if we are not wearing the right type of clothing.
  1. Matthew 22:2 says the Lord was teaching about the “kingdom of heaven.”
  2. I want to pick up with verse 9 and read down through verse 13 – READ
• Jesus used “clothing” to help us understand the “kingdom of heaven.”
  1. Some dress in very fine clothing and others dress in very poor clothing.
  2. 2:2-3 says some wore “fine” clothing and others wore “poor” clothing.
• Clothing is used to illustrate the INTERNAL part of who we are, not the EXTERNAL part.
• Some of the best dressed people on earth will spend eternity in hell.
  1. 16:19 says a man dressed in “purple” and “fine linen”; Jesus said this man is lost.

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• If we dressed up especially nice today, great. Maybe today w/be the start of a new & good habit.

• To get the right clothing, we must first get rid of the bad clothing.
  1. In Col. 3:9 Paul said the Colossians had “put off” the old man.
  2. 6:6 is similar (“the old man was CRUCIFIED with the Lord).
  3. 4:22 tells us the “former manner of life” was “put away.”
• We need “need clothing,” and this is why the Bible uses words like “washed.”
  1. 1 Cor. 6:11 says those who had become Christians had been “washed.”
  2. The Hebrew writer (10:22) also said those he was writing to had been “washed.”
  3. The apostle John – in a book not studied too often – also spoke about being “washed.”
• Some translations of Gal. 3:27 says those who become Christians are “clothed with Christ.”
• Our “wedding garment” is Jesus’ blood and His righteousness – our righteousness always fails.

• Have we washed our robe in the blood of the crucified and raised Lord?