Do you want to see the Gospel in the Old Testament?
Here you go.
Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 (WEB)
Take our key verse and get an image of our loving God covering the nakedness of Adam and Eve. They had sinned and they knew it. They were ashamed and afraid. “…and God clothed them.”
Read the conversation between God and Adam.
“Where are you, Adam?” God called as He walked in the cool of the day.
“I am here,” Adam replied.
“Why are you hiding from Me?”
The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so, I hid myself.”
God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:9-11 (WEB)
“We are exposed.” This is the story of everyone. We have willingly broken God’s law and will do it again. God is not surprised that we use the breath, hands, minds or feet that He gave us to sin against Him.
He just loves us.
Take a look at these two further in Genesis 3:12-13.
They were rebellious sinners before God, having lied and blamed Him for their sin.
Who does that sound like? It sounds like You and me.
The first blood was shed because of Adam and Eve’s sin. An innocent animal paid the price to cover their nakedness. Sin still had to be punished.
God did not accept the fig leaves they had fashioned together to cover their nakedness because it was used by Adam and Eve to cover their sin. They thought they were hiding their shame from God.
But God knew. God also knew that fig leaves would never be sufficient, not just practically, but in a real spiritual sense. Adam and Eve, and you and I for that matter, had to know the real cost of sin.
So, God demonstrated the first sacrifice of animals. This was a picture of what was to come. Sin is so deadly that only blood from a perfect source would suffice to cover our sin.
This was the sacrifice required of the perfect Lamb for us all.
Jesus. . .
God is holy and perfect. God is sinless and pure. He is the brightest white.
Think of the most beautiful snowfall that you have ever seen. Not even a blade of grass sticking up through it nor a smudge of dirt upon it. When the sun hits the surface, the brightness is blinding.
Our God is purer than that. He is brighter than that. And He chose to dress filthy sinners in the covering of His equal and holy Light.
Jesus . . .
When we come to Him with the confession “we are exposed”, our Father lovingly stoops to clothe us in His best.
Jesus . . .
“At salvation, you have literally stepped into Jesus.” 1
“…Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…” Isaiah 1:18 (WEB)
Lord Jesus, Cover Me.
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory. Colossians 3:4 (WEB)
Jesus lovingly covered our nakedness, secrets, fears, and sin with that precious blood. True believers need not fear our sin being exposed to holy God.
The Gospel is intended for everyone, but God’s law is the moral standard for believers, not those on the outside.
Lost people have blind eyes, and only the Holy Spirit can convince non-believers. The lost cannot see, just as we once could not.
Read Colossians 3:5-9.
Thoughtfully read over the list. What do you think? If you are a believer, those sins should not be a habitual downfall for you. That is the old life.
If you are in Christ. Colossians 3:11 “…Christ is all, and in all.” Colossians 3:11 (WEB)
Look at the new clothes of a believer in Jesus. Colossians 3:12-16
Can you check off each box below?
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,
- a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness
- humility, and perseverance
- bearing with one another
- forgiving each other
- even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
- Above all these things, walk in love (the bond of completeness in Jesus)
- Let the peace of God rule in your hearts
- to which you were also called in one body
- and be thankful.
- Colossians 3:12-15 (WEB)
Colossians 3:12-15 (WEB)
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