Wedding Garment or Filthy Rags

Matthew 22:11-14
Clothes may not make the man, but there is one garment that means the difference in where we spend eternity.

I: The World is very conscious of clothing.
1. Paris strives to set the pattern.
2. Hollywood influences the World.
3. Advertisement influences the clothes our children wear.
4. The place we go quite often dictates the type of clothes: Formal, social, tennis, beach, mountains or church!
5. Our standing in life influences the clothes we wear; Farmer, business, playboy, musician, or preacher.
6. Our financial standing.

II: Jesus told of a man that attended a wedding not properly clothed.
1. Many were invited that refused.
a. Some made light of the invitation and went to their farms and stores.
b. Some killed his servants.
c. The many came from every walk of life.
2. This man had no excuse to give the King.
a. The Banquet was free.
b. The Garment was furnished.
c. He wasn’t ignorant of the requirements.
d. He may have had many excuses for his fellow man, but not one for the King.

III: A Royal Garment or Filthy Rags.
1. Adam and Eve found the leaves were too thin.
2. Israel found that their righteousness was like filthy rags.
3. The men that would have stoned the woman taken in adultery found their clothing thin.
4. Men and women have always known they needed something to clothe the Spiritual life, but have failed in trying to clothe themselves.

IV: The Robe that God Requires:
1. A robe washed with blood.
2. Made white by the blood of the son of God.

“And he said unto me, these are they which came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb.” Revelations 7:14.
“Come now and let us reason together, said the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18.