Exchanging Grave Clothes for Resurrection Robes
HL Ford
Will we come out of the grave naked? Somebody asked.
I always look to Jesus as the answer to any question regarding the resurrection of the physical body.
The answer? Jesus left His grave clothes inside the tomb.
He was clothed with a new garment.
Also, Jesus did have a physical body.
He said, "Touch, me, a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones."
Note, He did not mention blood.
His sinless blood had been presented to the Father before anyone could touch Him (John 20: 17).
Wow! That's a hallelujah metaphor in itself.
Jesus exchanged His grave clothes for a new, white garment, a resurrection garment.
A perfect picture of the believer, once dead in sins, who is born again, his spirit made alive in Christ.
All things become new.
How do we get this resurrection garment?
We cannot attend the marriage supper of the Lamb without it.
According to Revelation 7: 14, we must wash our robes in the blood of the Lamb.
This is simply an act of faith in receiving Christ's blood as the atonement for our sins and submitting to His Lordship as the only begotten Son of God.
Are our prayerful words of repentance, faith and submission really that powerful?
How can mere words change a life so radically?
Jesus's words are spirit and life.
The Word of God created everything in the beginning.
The Word can certainly recreate and transform us.
The dead will leave their grave clothes and rise with shining robes (I Thess. 4:16).
Father, I thank You for the blood of the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. Forgive me. Transform me. Teach me righteous deeds for Your glory. Amen.
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