Clothing often has significant implications for revealing God’s plan of redemption. Despite their rebellion, he covered Adam and Eve’s shame and nakedness. Later, he designed and instructed the Israelites on the priestly garments of the Tabernacle. The biblical authors use both metaphorical and actual descriptions of priestly and royal garments to point us to the one true Priest and King, Jesus. And it’s this King, first wrapped in the rags of a swaddle, who then hangs naked on the cross in order to clothe us in the riches of his righteousness.
This Advent Sermon Series tells the stories of the clothing of the King. Stories that describe a wardrobe at once splendid and sin-stained, with fabrics that reveal who we are and cover us all the same. The clothing of the King is tattered and worn and glorious in its incorruptibility. It isn’t ours, yet he gives it to us freely.
For this series, we look at some of the best-known mentions of clothing in Scripture to proclaim Christ. Interweaving Old Testament stories like that of Adam and Eve’s clothing in exile and Joseph’s coat of many colours with Christ’s redemption on the cross,
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