WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? (3 OF 6)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Galatians 3:5-29
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What Are You Wearing? (3 of 6)
Series: Who Are You?
Jeff Strite
Galatians 3:5-29
OPEN: Jesus told a parable about King who invited everybody to his son's wedding. Now, I've been told that the custom of the day was for the host to supply his guests with appropriate wedding garments, but Matthew 22:11 tells us ''when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.'' The King was amazed and asked the man '''Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.''' (Matthew 22:12-13)
The parable has to do with... Salvation. Jesus was teaching us that the only way we can be saved is to wear the wedding garment God has supplied. But what wedding garment would that be?
Well Galatians 3:27 tells us ''For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.'' In other words, when we're buried in the waters of baptism... we put on Jesus. We've put on HIS mercy; we've put on HIS forgiveness; we've put on HIS righteousness.
Baptism is not a ''work'' of our righteousness (the Bible NEVER describes baptism that way). Baptism is when we allow someone else to bury us in a watery grave, and then lift us out of that watery grave to walk in newness of life. Baptism is not OUR work... it's the work of Jesus in us. Or as Colossians 2:12 says: we've ''been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him THROUGH FAITH in the powerful working of God, who raised Him from the dead.''
ILLUS: I once read that in some parts of Africa converts to Jesus burn their old clothes after baptism and then put on a new white robe to show what Jesus has now done with their lives. Jesus burns our past up... and clothes us with Himself.
In Genesis, we read that God gave new garments to Adam and Eve. After Adam and Eve sinned, they rea ...
Series: Who Are You?
Jeff Strite
Galatians 3:5-29
OPEN: Jesus told a parable about King who invited everybody to his son's wedding. Now, I've been told that the custom of the day was for the host to supply his guests with appropriate wedding garments, but Matthew 22:11 tells us ''when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.'' The King was amazed and asked the man '''Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.''' (Matthew 22:12-13)
The parable has to do with... Salvation. Jesus was teaching us that the only way we can be saved is to wear the wedding garment God has supplied. But what wedding garment would that be?
Well Galatians 3:27 tells us ''For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.'' In other words, when we're buried in the waters of baptism... we put on Jesus. We've put on HIS mercy; we've put on HIS forgiveness; we've put on HIS righteousness.
Baptism is not a ''work'' of our righteousness (the Bible NEVER describes baptism that way). Baptism is when we allow someone else to bury us in a watery grave, and then lift us out of that watery grave to walk in newness of life. Baptism is not OUR work... it's the work of Jesus in us. Or as Colossians 2:12 says: we've ''been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him THROUGH FAITH in the powerful working of God, who raised Him from the dead.''
ILLUS: I once read that in some parts of Africa converts to Jesus burn their old clothes after baptism and then put on a new white robe to show what Jesus has now done with their lives. Jesus burns our past up... and clothes us with Himself.
In Genesis, we read that God gave new garments to Adam and Eve. After Adam and Eve sinned, they rea ...
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