LOVE THIS TRUTH THANK YOU FATHER GOD AMEN ! The miracle of what God has done through Jesus Christ ravishes my heart. I am enthralled beyond measure that by faith He has clothed me with the robe of Christ’s righteousness. The first thing God does is to strip away all the artificial, man-made coverings, and presents His own glorious covering, the slain Lamb. “For Adam also and for his wife the Lord God made long coats (tunics) of skins, and clothed them” (Gen. 3:21, Amplified). We would be hard pressed to understand the deep mystery of these “skins” with which the Lord clothed the sorrowing pair were it not that the scripture informs us that at that precise point in history GOD SLEW A LAMB FOR OUR COVERING. Christ, the Lamb of God, was “foreordained before the foundation (disruption) of the world” (I Pet. 1:20), and He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation (disruption) of the world” (Rev. 13:8). And that Lamb is the atonement (Hebrew: covering) of God for us, typified by all the Old Testament atonement sacrifices, and He is our only robe of righteousness. Interesting that the Lamb was slain not merely for the sinning man and woman, and not only for the naked man and woman, but for the man and woman CLOTHED IN FIG LEAVES! The “skins” of covering from the Lamb were given to replace the fig leaves of man’s self-effort, and not only was the man himself brought to the cross, but all his self-made religion of works as well! Ah, yes, the cross shall deal not only with sin and nakedness, it shall deal as well with our fig-leaves! How vain have been our strivings about externals and our insistence upon carnal technicalities that we in ignorance deemed so very important! How often the spirit within me has been grieved as I have listened to brethren wasting their time contending over baptisms, communion, foot washing, meats and drinks, holy days, dress codes, long hair, short hair, women preachers, prayer veils, and petty doctrines of every kind, and when they were through with their pietistic wrangling, they had accomplished nothing but to prove that they knew everything about the dead letter of the Word and absolutely nothing about the mind of Christ or the life-giving Spirit! Men do not need any external ordinances, ceremonies, rituals or regulations. They need CHRIST AS LIFE! It was not the gospel, but the Old Covenant “which stood in meats and drinks, and divers washings (baptisms), and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation (change). But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands (not anything you can produce externally)...” (Heb. 9:10-11). Fig leaves! Fig leaves! Fig leaves! Cursed covering of man’s own devising! And any man with eyes to see can see the flesh shining brazenly through it in spite of all the intricate design and superficial appearance of life. Oh! how men try to conceal the corrupt flesh underneath, and indeed they may partially hide it from men, but the fig-leaf apron can never screen a man from the eye of God. But, blessed be the name of the Lord, God has reserved to Himself a people who is completely different, a people who is wholly HIS, a people who dwells in the light which Christ Himself is, elect according to the foreknowledge of God, sanctified by His Spirit, obedient to their heavenly Father, and clothed in the GARMENTS OF LIFE, even the righteousness of God’s Lamb by the Spirit of resurrection from the dead. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the people that shall be granted an ABUNDANT ENTRANCE into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:26:26 +0000
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