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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode is: SPIRITUAL GARMENTS

Today I want to talk to you about our spiritual garments.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

I want you to take a mental trip to your closet or dresser drawer. Wherever you keep it, you have that old T-shirt or some other article of clothing that should have been discarded long ago. Something that just fits right or feels good when you put it on. It is comfortable.

We all have one or more pieces of clothing that we do not need. Why do we still cling to them? We can’t put our robes of righteousness over top of worn-out rags. We need to get rid of the old rags. I wonder why we cling to the filthy rags of the past. Is it because we are comfortable in the role? Have we gotten used to all of our baggage? Some would say that they hold onto their rags because they don’t want to embarrass God. Don’t we think God is embarrassed to see his children spiritually dressed as though he cares nothing for them? We need to put on the robe Jesus bought and paid for with his own blood.

Col 3:8-10 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

When we are saved we put off the old man and put on the new. Some have a hard time letting go of the old man, because they are used to being a certain way. The enemy will try to remind us at every turn about all the wrong we have done. He will try to entice us to put on that comfy old sweater of sin just one more time.

We have to be strong and close the door to the past. If we throw away the old clothes there will be nothing left for us to wear but our new ones.

The word tells us to put on certain things.

Col 3:12-14 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Notice some of the things we are told to put on happens to be fruit of the Spirit. Things like longsuffering and kindness. If we put on the garments that God gives us, we will not want to cling to our filthy rags.

Eph 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Do not allow others to be the ones to choose what you wear. Only you know who you are and who’s you are, a child of God. He has given us new clothes. It is our choice if we wear them or not.

At times in our faith walk, we get down. Things can press in from all sides causing us to have a spirit of heaviness or depression. This is a place the enemy wants us to stay. We cannot be effective if we are down and depressed.

Worship can lift us above the heaviness, if we change our focus from our problems to our God. If we enter his presence with worship and praise he will lift us out of our depression.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Put on the garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness. We are told to put on the whole armor of God in the book of Ephesians. Which gives us the tools we need to be warriors in the army of the Lord.

But all of this can be summed up by getting rid of the old garments and putting on the new one, the garments that come from knowing Jesus. We are to put on Christ. 

Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

What garment are you wearing?

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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