GRAVE CLOTHES TO GRACE CLOTHES
April 5, 2026
There’s a new fashion that comes with following Jesus.
Colossians3:9-11 Don’t lie to one another. You’re done with that old life. It’s like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you’ve stripped off and put in the fire. Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ. The Message
1. PUT ON POWER
Luke 24:29 “And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”” English Standard Version
2. PUT ON PRAISE
Worship is my Wardrobe
New threads take us into new thresholds.
John 11:20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. 21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. New International Version
John 11:43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out…” New International Version
"Laz“R”us
John 11:44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” New International Version
3. TAKE OFF THE GRAVE CLOTHES
Salvation is being saved by Jesus
Sanctification is becoming like Jesus
4. PUT ON GRACE CLOTHES
Isaiah 61:10 “He has clothed me with garments of salvation.”