WHAT IS OUR GARMENT?
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ALREADY DEFILED. YOU NEED HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS NOT YOURS!
Romans 9:30-32
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it NOT BY FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
ISRAEL FOLLOWED AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, THEIR OWN! THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS!
IMPUTED MEANS GIVEN.
Romans 4:20-25
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
And therefore it was IMPUTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
But for US ALSO, to whom IT SHALL BE IMPUTED, IF WE BELIEVE ON HIM that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
IT IS AS CLEAR AS DAY IF YOU ARE NOT FILLED WITH PRIDE. YOU NEED GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS NOT YOUR OWN. IF YOU SEEK AFTER YOUR OWN YOU WILL GO TO HELL AND BURN FOREVER!
HIS GARMENT HEALS.
Luke 8:43-44
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
HIS GARMENT IS ACCEPTABLE.
Mathew 22:10-13
So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a WEDDING GARMENT:
And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
YOU CAN NOT MIX HIS NEW GARMENT WITH YOUR OLD ONE OR IT WILL DESTROY BOTH.
Matthew 9:16
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.