By Dr. Charles Smith

By Dr. Charles Smith

Take a few minutes and imagine something wonderful! On the day that we were born, God gave us all a splendid white robe. This robe was the whitest of whites; so bright and shining that you could hardly bear to look at it. You will wear this robe for the rest of your life like a little lamb wears its coat.

However, every time you commit a sin, in thought, word, or deed, an angel of the Lord comes from Heaven with a blood red permanent marker and makes a mark on your beautiful white robe of innocence.

As the years go by, the angel continues to mark your robe every time you sin. WHAT WOULD YOUR ROBE LOOK LIKE? WOULD IT STILL BE WHITE?

Imagine a planet that is higher than the stars, and is one thousand times bigger and prettier than the earth. God is there! It is perfect! No sickness! No death! No goodbyes! God says, I love you and want you here, but you MUST have a white robe!

A perfect robe for a perfect place! With your red robe, could you get in? The answer is NO! In fact... NO ONE COULD!

If the story ended here, it would be a sad story. When we die, we either go up or down. No one wants to go down, because we know what is down there!

Let s continue the story In the beginning God created Adam, took a rib and made Eve. Eve sinned first, but sin does not pass from mothers. You ve never heard the phrase, In Eve all die but you have heard the phrase In Adam all die.

In the Ten Commandments it says, visiting the iniquities of the fathers unto the children Sin is always passed from the father, never from the mother.

With this in mind... every child born into this world with a human father has a nature to sin. Hypothetically, a child born without a father has the potential to be sinless.

T hat was the case with Jesus. He was born without a human father. He was born without sin and never sinned. Jesus, the Holy Child of Bethlehem

Now, imagine this Place a watch on a coffee table, down where a two-year old can reach it. Tell the child, Don t touch! Then go in the other room. What will the child do? When the child hears you coming back into the room, he will put the watch back on the table.

When you ask, Did you touch it? what will the child say? We know what this child is going to do! The child will shake his head, NO! That is human nature coming out. The child knows how to lie! This is the natural instinct of sinful man! Jesus, being born of a virgin, did not have this. Jesus never sinned. II Corinthians 5:21

How does Jesus robe look? He went to the cross to die for sin, with a white robe, indicating no sin! Jesus had no sin to die for!

Jesus invites you to trade your red robe for His pure white robe. Suppose you traded: He would take your old robe and nail it to the cross with a big crucifixion spike and give you His pure white robe so you could live forever. Your old robe is nailed to the cross.

What would God see if you had this white robe? 1. Your sin would be gone! 2. All of Jesus purity, innocence, and goodness would be on you. WHERE WOULD YOU GO IF YOU HAD THIS WHITE ROBE?

Will you receive Christ and His total forgiveness for all your sin now? Romans 10:13 says, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Pray this prayer: Dear Jesus, Please give me Your white robe and nail it to the cross. Come into my heart and save me. Amen.

Now that you have received Jesus you have His white robe of righteousness. Now, should you sin, when the angel comes to mark your robe where would he put that red mark? If he marked on your beautiful new robe, it would be disastrous.

But the angel cannot mark of this robe because this robe belongs to Jesus and to us. And Jesus is God - as in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Then where would he put the mark?

The angel says, I cannot mark this white robe, it has Jesus written all over it. Where is your original robe? According to Colossians 2:14, our sins are nailed to the cross. And, having make peace through the blood of his cross (Colossians 1:20)

Jesus will never take our white robe away. The white robe remains with us, and the red robe remains on the cross. And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28)

Now that you re saved, you should be baptized and attend a good church. Let us suggest you begin your Bible reading in the book of John, in the New Testament.

John 1:29 Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Supporting Verses The White Robe Parable Baptism Eternal Security Gen. 3:21 Lev. 16:4 Job 29:1,14 Ps. 22:18 Isa. 1:18 Isa. 22:21 Rom. 13:14 Eph. 5:27 Rev. 6:11 Rev. 19:7-8,14 Isa. 53:6 Isa. 61:10 Zech. 3:3-4 Matt. 22:12-13 Matt. 27:28 Luke 15:22 Matt. 3:13-15 Acts 2:41 Acts 8:36-37 Rom. 6:3-5 I Pet. 3:21 John 3:36 Tit. 1:2 Heb. 8:12 I John 5:13

Doctrines found in the White Robe Parable Eternal security I Pet. 1:5 Resurrection I Cor. 15:20 Never-dying soul Gen. 2:7 Hell is eternal Rev. 20:10 Exclusive salvation John 14:6 God is love I John 4:8 Jesus loves you John 13:1,34 John 15:10,12 Bible is truth John 17:17 Substitutionary sacrifice Heb. 9:28 Virgin birth Isa. 7:4/Matt. 1:23 Deity of Christ Matt. 28:19/Phil. 2:6/Col. 1:16/Heb. 1:8 Sinlessness of Jesus II Cor. 5:21/ I Pet. 2:22 Resurrection of man I Cor. 15:45 The last Adam I Cor. 15:45 Sanctification Heb. 2:11

Doctrines found in the White Robe Parable All have sinned Rom. 3:23 Not of works Rom. 4:4 By nature the children of wrath Eph. 2:3-4 Wages of sin is death Rom. 6:23 Heaven is up Acts 1:11/Eze. 1:4 Hell is down Isa. 14:15/Luke 16:23 God is Heb. 11:6 Perfect Heavenly Father Matt 5:48 Redemption in Christ Jesus Rom. 3:24 Righteousness of God without the law Rom. 3:21 Justification Rom. 5:18 Saved by grace Eph. 2:8 Through faith Rom. 5:1/Acts 20:21 Salvation is a gift Rom. 6:23 Preaching of the cross I Cor 1:18 One offering for sin Heb. 10:14

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