Our Christian Wardrobe

For example, there was a time that the public school taught students, that when you applied for a job, you should dress up in your best clothes for the job interviews.

Today, it is not unusual to see young people go to a job interview in clothes that look like they wore them to bed last night, and they got up without combing their hair, and went and applied for a job.

Many of the public schools are doing a bad job of teaching students how to dress for job interviews.

ALSO, many of the churches also are doing a bad job of teaching Christians how to dress properly.

The Bible clearly states, that we as Christians, have some things in our lives that we SHOULD PUT ON, and there are some things we should PUT OFF.

We need to very carefully study the Word of God, to see how we can look our very best for the Lord.

Some things should be so OBVIOUS, that we should not have to preach on them, but we find it necessary to do so.

Illus: Some folks remind me of the two young lawyers that graduated at the University of South Carolina. They both applied for a job at a large, very prestigious, law firm in Charlotte, North Carolina.

When they arrived, they were impressed with the layout. They told the very distinguish looking receptionist, that they had come to apply for the two job openings in the firm. She notified the senior partner of the firm that the two candidates had arrived. He said to the receptionist, “Send them in one at a time”.

The first young man, Billy Ray, walked into his office, and he saw all the beautiful furniture and the marble floor, and he was impressed. He looked at the senior partner of the firm, and noticed a cut over his right eye, and that he had no ears. All he had was two holes on the sides of head. But he did not say a thing.

The man behind the desk said, “I want to thank you for coming to Charlotte to be interviewed for the job, but to be a lawyer in this firm, you have to be very observant. Look around the office and tell me what you see?”

The young lawyer looked around at all the beautiful furniture and the marble floor, and he said, “I see that you do not have any ears!” The senior lawyer became very angry, and ordered him out of the office.

Billy Ray came out, and told the other young lawyer, “Billy Joe, whatever you do, do not say anything to him about his ears, he is very sensitive”.

Billy Joe walked into the office, and he also notice the beautiful furniture and the marble floor. The senior law partner said to him also, “I want to thank you for coming to Charlotte to be interviewed for the job, but to be a lawyer in this firm you have to be very observant. Look around the office and tell me what you see?”

Billy Joe looked around again, and saw all the beautiful furniture and marble floor, and said, “I see your contact lenses”.

The senior officer said, “That’s great! You have great perception. What made you notice that from there?” He said, “Because, you don’t have any ears!”

Now there are some things in the scripture that are so obvious, we cannot help but notice them.

Such as, the fact that the Word of God clearly reveals, that there are some things we are to PUT ON as Christians, and there are some things we are to PUT OFF.

I. SOME THINGS WE ARE TO PUT OFF

Look at verse 7-9. We read, “In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds.”

We have already covered these verses in the previous sermon in this series.

These are the things we should get rid of in our lives. When we wear these things as a Christian, they are unbecoming to us.

Illus: Have you ever seen one of those shaggy, dirty, hippies walking around town?

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE A PERSON LIKE THAT?

The thing I think of is this; I feel so sorry for some Mom or some Dad. How embarrassed they must be, to have to claim such a person as their child.

Likewise, when we as Christians put on these things that are unbecoming to us as the children of God, what a terrible embarrassment they must be to our heavenly Father.

We, the children of royalty, SHOULD NOT PUT ON: