Pastor Frank Bailey

THE BRIDE CLOTHED WITH CHRIST

Ps.45:8,9 – All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia;
From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You joyful.
Kings’ daughters are among Your noble women;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

This is where we get to the very intimate nature of the gospel, the bride of Christ is literally clothed with His garments, Paul said that we are to put on Christ. What does that even mean? This is describing the intimate nature of our faith in Christ and the effect of my faith in His sacrificial death on the cross. Somehow my old garments of sin are removed and I am covered with the clothes of Jesus. This is the fruit of the cross and the way we are viewed by the Father in heaven.
So this is what takes place, there is an exchange that happens by faith. My old life and lifestyle is picture by an old set of clothes. The righteous life of Christ is a picture of the beautiful wedding garments. When I first believe on the Lord the exchange happens, I put off my old set of clothes and put on the righteous garments of Christ. This is how Richard Coore describes this .

“These things are true in Jesus; by his garments in meant his righteousness; for it is written, He clothed himself with righteousness and zeal. And here the translator hath put in smell, which rather should have been are, for “his garments are of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia,” that is, truly purging, cleansing, and making sound; for his righteousness, which is the righteousness of faith, maketh sound hearted Christians; whereas, man’s righteousness, which is the righteousness of works, maketh filthy hypocrites. And by “ivory palaces, “is meant the true faith and fear of God; for ivory is solid and white, and palaces are king’s houses; and by Christ we are made kings, and our dwelling is in faith and fear of God; and this is the gladness and joy of our Lord Jesus, that he brings many sons and daughters unto God.”

This prophetic word in David’s Psalm carries the very essence of why Jesus became a man. You could say He took on the clothes of humanity so that I could put on the clothes of the Son of God. This is the picture Jesus was describing when He taught about the wedding feast in heaven. He made one thing very clear, you can only get in if you have the wedding garments on.

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