The clothing of Christ is given as a grace gift by the King [God the Father] when the believer enters the palace [PPOG] by faith. John 14:19; Luke 5:36; Matt 22:11John 14:19"After a little while the world will behold Me no more; but you will behold Me; because I live, you shall live also.
The truth, which leads to the life, must be given to man, which can only come through faith in Christ, i.e. answering the call.
/The analogy of the seamless truth being the inner garment of Christ given to man tells us that God demands for us to put it on and clothe ourselves with it.\
Our covering is the flesh and it is riddled with the OSN, making us fearful, unconfident, ashamed, etc. feeling naked, but there is something more powerful than all that – the word of God.
Represented here by the seamless garment, Christ has given it to us so that we may put it on and it will itself cover or clothe the nakedness of our flesh.
Christ’s physical body was transformed into a resurrection body and so will your contaminated body, but minus the contamination. But Christ did not wait until He received a resurrection body to live the life. He wore a garment of doctrine which is so powerful that it will also cover our contamination in time that we may live the life, but without perfection.
/Man’s garment was torn at the fall. He separated himself from God choosing independence from God and so he was torn. Since then many have tried to repair those tares themselves and whatever they come up with must always have seams. \
Luke 5:33 And they said to Him, "The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers; the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same; but Yours eat and drink."
Luke 5:34And Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?
Luke 5:35"But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days [intensification of AC]."
Luke 5:36And He was also telling them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.
This refers to taking a portion of the word of God and attempting to apply it in your flesh, mixing it with human viewpoint.
/Believers cannot take only parts of the word of God. It has to be accepted as one truth. All scripture is God breathed.\
Luke 5:37"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.
Luke 5:38"But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins [new creature].
Luke 5:39"And no one, after drinking old wine[human viewpoint or Mosaic Law]wishes for new; for he says, 'The old is good enough.'"
The CWL cannot be lived in the power of the flesh. The garment that is the flesh must be taken off the soul and the new man in truth must clothe the soul.
As He tells this I’m sure He is feeling that inner garment against His skin, knowing the prophecy of Psalm 22, that it will be given to mankind. There is something else in that Psalm that He might have thought of.
/Ps 22:6 But I am a worm [tola – crushed, blood was used for crimson dye for kings robes], and not a man, A reproach of men, and despised by the people. \
/Isa 53:10 But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; \
/When God gave man His perfect Law it only revealed man’s torn condition, Rom 7:15\
/Rom 7:15 For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. \
No one could keep the Law entirely because no one possessed perfect righteousness.
/Isa 64:6 For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;\
If the seamless garment is torn it can not be put right again. We cannot take portions of the word and attempt to unite them to human viewpoint without losing the effectiveness of the word. After all that Christ went through that horrible night leading up to the cross that garment was not torn one millimeter.
If He was not stripped naked at the cross the Roman spear would have torn it.
/Man cannot tare the word of God. Man cannot take away from it or add to it.\
When man attempts to remove parts of the word he tares it. When he attempts to add to the word he adds a cloth of a different type and it will not match. In both cases the removing or the adding requires stitching and therefore making a visible seam.
The members of the body do not conspire or confer to tell the head what to do; to arrange the plans and programs for the head. Neither does the head ask the members to make the plans. The members are but informed of what the plans already are, or of what the next step is, and their responsibility begins and ends with obedience.
Col 2:18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.
/Phil 2:16 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may have cause to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.\
Which kind of order or unity that we will obtain depends on how far the truth of holding fast the Head is being expressed. The oneness of Christ in His thought, His purpose, His way, His means, His time, His everything, expressed in the saints, is what is in view when we are given this seamless robe to wear.
2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down [physical death of the believer], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Cor 5:2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven;
2 Cor 5:3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, shall not be found naked.
2 Cor 5:4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
We want to be clothed. The mortal is the flesh and God has given us a perfect plan so that flesh can be swallowed up by the life of Christ, “because I live you shall live also.”
2 Cor 5:5Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.
The Spirit isn’t given for the purpose of providing a resurrection body, but to be our paraklete, our assistant and Helper, so that we can live the life in time.
The pledge is from Christ, that He would not abandon us, but rather would provide for us a source of limitless power – God the Holy Spirit and the word.
2 Cor 5:6Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord
2 Cor 5:7for we walk by faith, not by sight —
2 Cor 5:8we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Cor 5:9Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him [execute the PPOG so that capacity is achieved and the riches of God’s glory can be given].
2 Cor 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad [evil].
/Rom 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. \
Eph 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted [it gets worse and not better] in accordance with the lusts of deceit [flesh gives empty promises],
Eph 4:23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind [metabolize the full realm of doctrine],
Eph 4:24and put on the new self [new creature – F/HS and met BD/soul], which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. |