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An invitation as gone out |
PART FIVE
WHAT WILL WE WEAR?
In Matthew 22:1-14 Jesus told a parable about a king and a wedding feast. In verse one He compared it to the kingdom of heaven and goes on to tell how the marriage of His Son had come, yet those who first called (The Jews, His people) chose not to come and in fact murdered His servants He sent to invite them. Then He sent His servants to the highways and byways to invite ALL, here it is, our invite, to come and receive His invitation. The wedding garments were very important, when the king came in he saw one with no wedding garment on, and in the parable the king asked him how he got in without a wedding garment? The man was speechless and was then cast into hell. It is in verse 14 that Jesus says "Many are called but few are chosen". The meaning is simply this, the call to come and receive His invitation goes out to everyone, yet few chose to receive His call.
I don't know a lot, but in this parable I believe Jesus was saying that no one could enter into heaven nor come to the marriage supper of the Lamb without the proper wedding garment. So our garment is extremely important; therefore, we need a true biblical understanding of what our garment in heaven will be. I suggest you open your word and read the parable found in the scriptures above. So let's look at our wedding garment, least we be found naked. Found in Revelation 16:15.
Ephesians 5:26-27 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not have spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy without blemish.
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me in the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And a bride adorns herself with jewels.
Zechariah 3:4b ...... "Take away the filthy garments from him." And to him He said "See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes."
Read Revelation 3:4-5 it speaks of those who walk with Him being clothed in white. White always represents purity.
Revelation 19:7-9 "Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, "Write, Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!" And then he said to me "These are the true sayings of God."
So now stop and look around at the scene in heaven around us, what do you see? I see white, pure white garments worn by all present, the garment we wear represents our faith, our salvation the cleansing of the blood of Christ as we were washed in His blood and through His word. The robe we have on is a robe of righteousness, in and of ourselves we are as it is written in Isaiah 64:6, until our salvation we were wearing fifthly rags as garments. But we were given at the moment of our conversion His righteousness. In Ephesians 2:10 we are told we are His workmanship, created in Christ for good works. These good works are our righteous acts
Our wedding garments, as we spent eternity in heaven, likewise are eternal. They never wear out, they never get dirty, torn nor will they be thrown off or thrown away. These garments are part of us, it identifies us as those who were called and received the gift of salvation through faith and repentance, offered by the Son of God, Jesus Christ. I could write and give many scriptures about our part here in this life we now live, to make ourselves ready and how to keep our garments without spot or blemish, but not in this blog.
WHEN WILL WE RECEIVE OUR HEAVENLY GARMENTS?
Listening to reliable pastors, I hear at the Judgment Seat/Bema Seat of Christ. Let's look at this very quickly.
Here are the Judgments of God:
1. SIN was judged at the cross
2. All believers must go before the JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST/BEMA SEAT. We are saved, but this is the time we will give answer for what did we do with Christ while in our life here. What was the motivation behind our good works to bring glory to ourselves or glory to God. Were we obedient to what Jesus asked us to do, or were we disobedient. Did we love the brethren, were we witnesses of His goodness. Here we will give an account of every idle word spoken and more. Here we will receive our rewards. I did a blog about that in May 2019, not going to go into it now.
3. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS, will take place during the Great 7 year Tribulation. Every tongue, tribe and nation, people great and small will face the wrath of God, because they didn't accept His gift, His Son. ( Salvation will be available during this time)
4. GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT, takes place at the end of the 1,000 year reign when Satan is permanently cast into the Lake of Fire. Then all the unbelievers will rise up out of their graves and be changed into bodies designed for an eternity in Hell. They will come before God and the books of all their life will be opened and their name will not be found in the Lamb's Book of Life, they will be found guilty and cast into the Lake of Fire for all eternity.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which has been built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
We All Will Appear Before Christ |
What is the fire mentioned above? John's vision of Jesus:
Revelation 1:14 His head and hair were white as wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire
There is the fire, we will look into the very face and eyes of our Savior as we see all our actions played out before us, done with the wrong motive.
It is here that we long to hear the words "Well Done Good and Faithful Servant"!
Help us Jesus that we will waste not one more moment of our life on trivial things and fail to be whom You have called us to be. Let us be obedient to You, to seek You, to be a continual witness of Your goodness. Let us use the gifts and talents You have given us for your kingdom purpose and not hide them away. In Jesus name Amen
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