GARMENTS OF PLEASURE (THE WORLD) OR GARMENTS OF HOLINESS (SET APART) by Catherine Heim

     I was in this place, looking on, as many, many people were trying on garments, clothes, if you will, their "emotions" filled with excitement, as they tried on one garment after another, each garment reflecting their innermost being.  I looked on with a sadness, as these people, both men and women, bore the "image of the world", instead of a people, a people who represented, and bore the "image" of a Father, who sent a SON, that they too would reflect the FATHER, through the SON, the SON of the Most High, JESUS the CHRIST!!!  MESSIAH, SAVIOUR of the world!!!

     As I looked upon, or perused the scene before me, I realized the magnitude of the admonition to "put on the New Man daily" as the apostle Paul declared in the WORD, the very WORD, that is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow", the WORD that never changeth, and declared TRUTH, and cannot lie.

     What I ask you, is the question of the moment, of the year, and yet of the DAY?  What is the GARMENT, the ONE, and only GARMENT of our Salvation?  What I ask you, do we put on, each one, each one of whom has been called, called for a Purpose, called for a Plan, a Plan of Salvation, a Plan of Deliverance, a Plan that was purposed even before the foundation of the world, a Plan "to bring many sons to Glory" through a renewal, a regenerating of the "Mind of Christ", the ever-living WORD of GOD in the NAME, THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES, JESUS CHRIST - SON OF THE LIVING GOD, THE LIVING WORD HIMSELF, our ONE , our ONE and only GARMENT of Salvation - JESUS CHRIST, SON of GOD, yet SON of MAN, He STANDS IN US, "CHRIST IN US, THE HOPE OF GLORY"!!!

     Clothed upon from within, and clothed upon from without, filled to the full measure of the SON of His GLORY- His Mind, His WILL, His WAYS, His Plan of Salvation, that we might BEHOLD Him, that we might KNOW Him, the LAMB that was slain, the Mighty LION of JUDAH Himself!  The ever Living WORD of His GLORY!  JESUS CHRIST!!!

     "That we might KNOW Him, in the power of His resurrection, the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death."  "The KNOWING of Him, the "donning of ourselves with the "MIND OF CHRIST", the WORD OF GOD daily!  The renewing of our minds, day, by day, by day, from "GLORY TO GLORY", we are clothed WITH, and IN Him in LIFE, in GLORY!!!

      He rose that we might live.  That we might "grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ," that the FATHER, through the SPIRIT OF TRUTH Himself, might be revealed unto us... the WORD OF GOD, the WORD of His GLORY, the ALPHA, and OMEGA, the beginning, and the end of ourselves, to be swallowed up in LIFE!  His LIFE!!!

     This is the GARMENT of TRUTH, ONE in the FATHER, ONE in the SON, in the SPRIT OF TRUTH Himself,  JESUS CHRIST!!!

     Ah, to KNOW Him, in the inward man, growing up in Him, with Him, and through Him, declaring, the wonders of "His Mercies, that are NEW every morning, GREAT is His FAITHFULNESS", to those who are His!!!  

     "RISE UP - oh sons and daughters of ZION, shake yourselves from the dust.  Put on your beautiful garments, for you were redeemed without money, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb."

     "He was a MAN of SORROWS, well aquainted with GRIEF."

     "He learned obedience through the things He suffered..."

      Yet chose us for His own, His own special treasure, chose us for His GLORY, that we might SEE, and PROCLAIM His GLORY to the nations, peoples and tongues, that we might be ONE, in the FATHER, through the SON, in the power of His SPIRIT - that we might STAND!  That we might STAND in that DAY?  In what DAY? The DAY OF THE LORD!!!  The DAY of the SON OF MAN, yet SON OF GOD, the ever-living, breathing, pulsating, revelation of JESUS CHRIST Himself!!!

     "He has fire in His eyes, and a sharp two edged sword in His mouth, and a banner across His chest - the WORD OF GOD!!!" The Revelation of JESUS CHRIST - THE SON OF MAN - YET SON OF GOD!!!

     I say unto you my brothers and sisters, clothed in the precious blood of the LAMB, cleansed daily through the ever-living Water of the WORD of GOD, the WORD of His Testimony, CLOTHED in the WORD Himself, I say unto  you, my brothers and sisters in Him, "you are not of the night, but of the DAY, that this DAY should overtake you", I say unto you STAND, "that you might STAND in the evil day", and I say unto you again STAND!!!  "When gross darkness covers the earth, the GLORY of the Lord shall rise upon thee..."

     Now you, with eyes to see, and ears to hear, you, that are of the DAY, you who are clothed with the "Mind of Christ", my ever-living WORD, My SON JESUS CHRIST, "lift up your heads, your redemption draweth nigh...","the redemption of your bodies to wit", "clothed with the power from on high", open, yea, I say unto you again, open your mouths that I might fill them with My two edged sword, the Living WORD of My Testimony, the WORD of My WILL, the WORD of My GLORY, and I say unto you, my own, a NEW SONG shall usher forth declaring the NEW DAY, the DAY of My MILLENIUM REST!!!  For I say unto you My sons and daughters,

  "ARISE THE KING OF GLORY HAS COME IN, WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY?"

                   "CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!"

     THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS ARRIVED!!!  Do you KNOW the NEW SONG?"

I ask you once again, "Do you know the NEW SONG?"

         In, with, and through Him, Catherine Heim