Bible pictures of Christ, Pt 6Bible pictures of Christ · part 6 of 126Rev. Ivan Foster · ChildrenGenesis 3:21 · Thu Oct 8, 2015
As a new school year has begun, Rev Foster has been asked to speak at two morning assembly meetings. His theme for 2015-16 is DV, "Pictures of Christ in the Bible." The second Picture of Christ - Adam and Eve clothed by God "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them," Genesis 3:21. 1. Adam and Eve did their best to make garments for themselves. "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons," Genesis 3:7. This was the only material available. No cloth, no needles, no thread. Likely they used thin vines or creepers or tendrils as thread to stitch the leaves together. The whole thing would have been rather crude and ugly. But such a garment was not good enough. Such garments did not provide a covering suitable for God's presence. "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do," Hebrews 4:13. Our efforts will not provide us with a covering for our sinfulness. "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away," Isaiah 64:6. The leaves they sewed together would have withered and decayed. 2. Please notice that clothes are meant for a covering!! We are meant to be covered and not as this world acts today, indecently and immodestly dressed!
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