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2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though Why people are sick? With his stripes we are healed
he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye 1. Sowing and Reaping. Cause and effect. Whatsoever a man
through his poverty might be rich. soweth that shall he also reap. (Trangakos, Diabetes, High
Blood)
You are precious in his sight. 2. Sin that needs to be confessed. Confess your faults one to
another. Grace.
I am unworthy but I am not worthless.
3. That we would be dependent on God. I beseech the Lord
3x. The first time clothing is ever mentioned in the Bible it occurs
4. That the Glory of God be revealed. Blind. Whose fault? in the Garden of Eden. God created Adam and Eve. He put
them in a perfect environment. The Bible says that they were
without clothing. They had no physical clothing. They were
3. Seamless robe naked
What the High Priest Wore in the Day of Atonement and the Bible says they were unashamed because they were
One piece garment \no cuts no punctures clothed in glory.
No needle ever punched a hole They were clothed in innocence. Then sin came and when it
did it stripped them of their innocence. They became
John 19:23 sinners. They became aware of their nakedness. The Bible
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his says that Adam and Eve tried to sew fig leaves together to
garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and provide some way to cover them in their sin.
also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the
top throughout. Thats exactly what people try to do today. People try to sow
the fig leaves of their own goodness, and the fig leaves of
When Jesus died on the cross rough Roman soldiers were their own good works. They get involved in social projects
gambling for His trying to get a garment that will be pleasing to God.
garment. It was one of the perks of the job. To crucify people
was a bloody business so But God came in that garden and the Bible says they hid from
they had to have a little something. So, it was allowed for the God because their garment of fig leaves would not do. Just
soldiers to take the like them we are now clothed in a garment of guilt.
garments of the victim and divide those garments among
themselves. In fact, Isaiah 64:6 says, all of our righteousness are as filthy
rags. You say you want to go to heaven? God says you have
This Robe Fulfills Scripture to be perfect to get into heaven. Perfection is Gods
standard. You and I are
We are told in verse 24 that the fact that they did not tear this standing in a garment of imperfection. How can we who are
robe of the Lord Jesus was a fulfillment of an Old Testament imperfect get into Gods perfect heaven? Here we are in the
Scripture. In verse 24 it robes of our sin. We are in the rags of our own sinfulness.
quotes a statement from Psalm 22:18. II. The POSITION of Jesus.
I. The PERFECTION of Jesus.
The priest tore his robe
It was a garment that didnt have a seam in itnot a hard Are you the Christ?
place in itnot a rough spot in it. It is a picture of the
perfection of Jesus Christ. III. The PROVISION of Jesus.
Someone will get his robe 8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to
II Corinthians 5:21: . the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
Jesus can take your filthy rags and exchange it for a robe of
righteousness Romans 10:9King James Version (KJV)
Are your garments spotless? 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing powr? the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour? Hope
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Swaddling Clothes Humility and humanity
Refrain: Hem of His robe Healing
Are you washed in the blood, Seamless robe Holiness
In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Grave Clothes - Hope
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
They dont know who He is, what they are doing, what Jesus
is doing
4. Grave Clothes
7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the
linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.