Rend the old garments and put on God

Destroy your burdens with the spirit of God. Out of the abundance of the heart you worship God. Tear the old tattered garment and put on the garments of God.

The meaning for tearing your garments .The tearing of one’s clothes is an ancient tradition among the Jews, and it is associated with mourning, grief, and loss.

Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

Your body is more important than your clothes  

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Exchange your garments for the beautiful garments of praise.

The spirit of despair was replaced with the spirit of praise   

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Seating in ashes

Among the ancient Hebrews and other Orientals, to sprinkle with or sit in ashes was a mark or token of grief, humiliation, or pen-i-tence. Ashes on the head was one of the ordinary signs of mourning for the dead.

 The Meaning of Ashes

After Job's 3 friends seen Job, they couldn't believed the punishment they thought God did to Job, so the three friends of Job tore there garments thinking that they had no part in what they thought was that Job sinned. "Never judge a book by its cover"       

Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Humble yourself before God and rend your clothes

II Chronicles 34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

A good man brings good out of his heart, and evil man bad things

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

@@Tearing off the old garments that have history of the old past. Put on the new with glory and praise the Lord with honor.

Colossians 3:10 And have on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

Because we are in the world doesn't mean we effect our spiritual relationship with God to compromise our faith with the world.

I John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

@@The world's sin reminds me of fly paper. There must be something sweet on the paper to attract the flies. There is nothing sweet about sin.

@@Satan is called the “lord of the flies” (“Baal-zebub”) We need to stay away from places that Baal-Zebub  dwells. (Satan) Think about this? where to you find flies? Things that are dead... If you follow Satan you are hang out with the dead...

Example: We are in this world be not part of the sins that separate from the love of God. It's like having a boat in the water, not the water in the boat.

When you surrender your complete life to Jesus Christ, we surrender all.
If we tear and remove our old tattered garments from our old life with the Lord Jesus, he will replaced them with a new garment of glory.

That means all pieces of garment from your old life must go.

If you hold  onto a scarf that was part of the old garment you have not removed and, giving your life completely to Jesus.

If your eye offend thee cast it from thee

Matthew 5:29-30 29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Closing scriptures: Matthew 5:14-16 Ye are the light of the world

Consider the change and walk in faith and, the Lord will lead your way.

Pastor Rolando Ramos 

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