05/24/2026
The sermon from May 24, 2026.
We’ve all got clothes for different sorts of occasions: clothes for work, clothes for yard work, and we’ve got our Sunday best. We all have clothes that fit the occasion. And so, to stand before your God, you need clothes that fit the occasion. Not your own, but the clothes that the Holy Spirit Himself gives to you: the righteous life of Jesus given for you on the cross. Jesus took your self-stitched sinful rags to His death on the cross. He buried them in His death. Those rags don’t belong to you anymore. Now, the Holy Spirit dresses you in Jesus and His right life before God for you.
The Holy Spirit clothed you with Christ in your Baptism, so that you now wear Jesus like a sacrificial suit. That’s how God deals with the disease of Sin. Your Sin is covered. The wages of Sin is death, but where Sin is covered, death reigns no more.
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