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The Daily Word of Righteousness
White Clothes To Wear, #4
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14 NIV)
We say we know we should not sin but if we do we are covered with the blood. If this is not a true concept then we Evangelicals are in trouble today.
And we are! We are using Divine grace as an alternative to righteous living when it is supposed to be the wisdom and power to convert us to righteous living. What a vast difference there is between these two concepts!
If the blood of the Lamb is not our white clothes but the means of keeping our clothes white, then what precisely is our white clothing?
Our white clothing is our righteous behavior that has been created as we have been forgiven through the blood atonement and then proceed to walk in the Spirit of God until Christ is formed in us. In the meanwhile the blood keeps us reconciled to God as we are being transformed morally.
The enormous, destructive error of Evangelical thinking is that the blood itself is an eternal robe such that God will see us only through the blood for eternity, thus making moral transformation unnecessary. God brings the unchanged Adam into Paradise on the basis of ascribed righteousness, we suppose, where he is sure to repeat the original disobedience.
Such is the destructive teaching of our day. We in America have an immoral culture to show for it, because the Christians are not being clothed in righteous behavior.
Now, where does it state clearly in the New Testament that our white clothing is our righteous behavior?
Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) (Revelation 19:7,8 NIV)
"Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints." Think of it!
Notice it does not say that the fine linen, bright and clean, is the blood of the Lamb. It could say that, you know, if it were true.
Rather, the firstfruits of the Bride of the Lamb is clothed in her own righteous behavior, not a righteous behavior proceeding from a religious adamic nature but the righteous behavior growing from the personality that has been crucified with Christ and has risen to walk with Him in newness of life.
The Kingdom of God is composed of new creations, the old sinful nature having passed away and all things of the new being of God. This is the end result of the new covenant.
Let us think now about Adam and Eve. As I said before, I believe the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden was the Lord Jesus Christ. He still is the Tree of Life and still is in Paradise.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7 NIV)
To be continued.