TAKE  IT OFF

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Text : Zechariah  3:4  

_And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment._

Yesterday, we saw how the Lord rebuked satan and ordered that filthy garments be removed from Joshua the high priest. Today, we shall be looking closely at various filthy garments the Lord wants you to put offs.

The first thing you must know is that the Lord is committed to taking off your filthy garments just as He did for Joshua. But you must however know that  responsibility is laid on you to cooperate with Him in order to take off your filthy garments.

The filthy garments actually represents the body of sin which you have to take off (mortify).
".....In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, _in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ_ : col. 2:11.

The putting off of this body of sins means:

1. Putting off the deeds of the old man. Colossians 3:8 instructed us to put off these deeds: "But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth."* These are deeds many Christians have struggled with for years. These deeds are garments that may not be so obvious to many. 

2. Mortifying your members on earth.
Colossians 3:3 says that you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. This is what the Lord did for us through His death, the verse 5 now talks about what you must do as a result of the death you have experienced- you are to "Mortify" the fleshly/evil desires in your bodies.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Colossians 3:5(KJV).

Amplified version  put it this way:
So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God)

God has many glorious garments in stock to clothe you with; but until you put off your filthy garments, you cannot be clothed. 

 You must also know that. The best and surest  way to securing permanent deliverance from the grip of the devil is putting off deeds of the flesh.


Bible Reading: Zechariah 3:1-10.

Prayer Points 

1. Father, give me grace to put off every deeds of the flesh hindering me from entering into your fullness in Jesus name.


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