The looks on my son’s faces-priceless! Amusement and grinning, when I bring out object lessons for the study God places on my heart. TIME is a gift. Open this box, the dress still pure white. Preserved. Kept white, as it remains the same as it was when I wore it down the aisle.
Do you know how many verses in the scriptures refer to white? Whiter than snow. Or even whiter than anything we could ever imagine on earth? An abundance.
WHITE REPRESENTS PURITY
Purity, Holiness, something so heavenly, that can only come from God Himself in the Holy of Holies. Jesus Christ, He came from heaven, to save people from their sins and out of this sin stained world, offering the gift of being united to Him, belonging to Him, with the promise of entering into His everlasting Kingdom. Through His blood sacrifice, receiving His work on the cross, the work of His Holy Spirit Who convicts us of sin, His Kindness leading us to repentance, Salvation, He washes our sins whiter than snow. His Word applied by the Spirit cleanses us onward day by day preparing us for glory. (Isaiah 1:18)
JESUS’ TRANSFIGURATION
“His clothes became shining, EXCEEDINGLY white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them” Mark 9:3
Jesus the Perfect unblemished Lamb of God, perfectly pure and Holy, there is no One like Him, the Only One Who is Perfect in love and Holiness to take away our sins. Sinners who come to Christ for the Only way to forgiveness of sins, Salvation, are clothed in His robe of righteousness. His righteousness alone.
WE ARE PRESERVED-KEPT
We are KEPT by the power of Christ Jesus the Lord. It’s His work, His power, His ongoing power at work in our lives until we meet Him. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE and UNDEFILED and that DOES NOT FADE AWAY, reserved in heaven for you, who are KEPT by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.” 1 Peter 1:3-9
THE TRUE CHURCH IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST
The Genuine Church of saints in Christ all over the world- We belong to Him. Jesus Christ is coming again, to bring us to Him in fullness forever.
“Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—
for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” Rev. 19:7-9
THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST (Matthew 22:1-14),
One of many take aways:
Jesus’ way of teaching the inadequacy of self-righteousness. From the very beginning, God has provided a “covering” for our sin. To insist on covering ourselves is to be clad in “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). Adam and Eve tried to cover their shame, but they found their fig leaves to be woefully scant. God took away their handmade clothes and replaced them with skins of (sacrificed) animals (Genesis 3:7, 21). In the book of Revelation, we see those in heaven wearing “white robes” (Revelation 7:9), and we learn that the whiteness of the robes is due to their being washed in the blood of the Lamb (verse 14). We trust in God’s righteousness, not our own (Philippians 3:9)-There is ONLY ONE WAY TO HEAVEN-JESUS CHRIST
THE EARTHLY MARRIAGE-SACRED COVENANT OF GOD-Between man and woman
“Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” Eph. 5:24-25
GOD’S COVENANT TO HIS OWN (how beautiful a rainbow appeared later after doing this study-God’s Rainbow, a reminder of His covenant in Genesis) “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me” Jeremiah 32:38-40
PASSING ONWARD TO THE GENERATIONS TO COME
Share the gospel. The message of the Perfect Unblemished Lamb of God, Jesus Christ Who saves. Share the testimonies, His mighty acts. Share it with all. Pass it on.
“Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.” Ps. 78:3-4
“Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come” Ps. 71:18
THE REDEEMED- WILL SEE GOD
“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8
The only way we can be truly pure in heart is to give our lives to Jesus and ask Him to do the cleansing work. Psalm 51:10 says, “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” God is the one who makes our hearts pure – by the sacrifice of His Son and through His sanctifying work in our lives (see also 1 John 3:1-3).
THINGS TO COME-THE WHITE HORSE-WE ARE IN THE LORD’S ARMY
“Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war…He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, WHITE and CLEAN, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:
KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.” Revelations 19
Isn’t He magnificent? The AWE AND WONDER OF THE LOVE AND POWER OF JESUS CHRIST THE LORD
