Clothed in Christ

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LESSON 13

*June 18 - 24

Clothed in Christ

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SABBATH AFTERNOON

Read for This Week's Study:

Gal. 3:26–29, Rom. 6:1–6, Col. 3:1–10, Eph. 4:22–24, 1 Cor. 15:49–55, 2 Cor. 5:1–4.

Memory Text:

“Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature” (Romans 13:14, NIV).

Have you ever dropped an egg and watched it break into messy pieces? One thing, though, you have never seen is the messy pieces of that broken egg dropped again, only to turn back into an egg. Reality just doesn’t work that way. A fundamental law of our natural world, at least our fallen natural world, is that objects tend toward decay, toward disorder. Things left alone do what: increase in energy, order, and structure or decrease, decay, and move toward disorder? The answer’s obvious. We see it all around us and even in ourselves (for instance, our aging bodies). A lot of complicated science goes into explaining this phenomenon, but you don’t need a PhD in physics to see it. To quote a text from an earlier lesson, “and the earth shall wax old like a garment” (Isa. 51:6). And yet, amid all this, we have the gospel, the plan of salvation, which at its core is about restoration, about taking the old, the broken, the decaying and making it new. This final week we’ll look at some special clothing imagery from the Scriptures that reveals these promises of renewal and restoration.

*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, June 25.