BBD 08.16.21 The Bride of Christ (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1828^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

16 August 2021

The Bride of
Christ

Let us be
glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb
has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it
was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine
linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Then he said
to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the
marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true
sayings of God.” – Revelation 19:7-9.

There has been a wedding dress lost in North
Texas and the North Texas Tollway Authority is trying to find the owner. The
Tollway Authority said workers doing a cleanup project on the Dallas North
Tollway in Frisco spotted a white box at the side of the road that contained
the dress. They posted a photo of the white dress on Twitter in the hopes of
finding the owner. Their spokesman Michael Ray said: “This is not a Sally Field, Smokey and the Bandit deal,
it didn't go flying out of a vehicle per se. It's boxed up. It's clearly
somebody's memory somewhere along the way they lost track with it and we like
to reunite them.”

Ray said documents inside the box indicate the
dress was boxed more than 20 years ago, but the papers didn't provide many
other clues pointing at the identity of the owner. He said the authority will
hold the dress for at least 90 days while officials try to find the owner.

What about your wedding dress or I guess I
should say wedding garment because if you know Jesus as our Savior you have
one. It’s called the Robe of Righteousness.
Back in the Old Testament as Isaiah prophesies in Isaiah
61:10 he says: I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul
shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a
bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels.

When you were
saved, when you prayed for Jesus to forgive you of your sins to come into your
life and be your Lord and Savior. When you did that, you were washed in the
blood of Jesus, birthed into the Kingdom of God, sealed until the Day of Redemption
and you were clothed with a Robe of Righteousness.

What is the Robe of
Righteousness? It is the Righteousness of Jesus. Once
clothed with this Robe when the Father looks at your life, He no longer sees
the rotten worm of a sinner that you are. No, instead He sees the righteousness
of Jesus. Jesus who was tempted at all points without sin and suffered and died
on the cross for your sins.

The Robe of
Righteousness is your wedding garment and I want to make
it clear that once you have been clothed with it, you can never lose it. (This
is the Southern Baptist perspective Romans 8:35-39; John 10:27-30.)

However,
sometimes we do our best to try to throw our wedding garment away even though
it is not possible to do. We drag it through the mud of sin, and it might as
well be in a box thrown out on the side of a highway for all the care we give
it.

When we do
those things that we know are sins we are dragging our wedding garment through
the mud. When we refuse to pray, refuse
to assemble with other believers, when we refuse to give, refuse to serve we
are dragging our wedding garment through the mud. It might as well be in a box
cast out on the side of a highway.

If you’ve been doing that, dragging your wedding
garment through the mud of sin…. If you’ve been doing that and you want to
change the beginning point is always 1 John 1:9, “If we confess
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
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Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for the people of
Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to God.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W;
Addison; JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy
M.; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.;
and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us through
this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

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Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1828^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

16 August 2021

The Bride of
Christ

Let us be
glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb
has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it
was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine
linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Then he said
to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the
marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true
sayings of God.” – Revelation 19:7-9.

There has been a wedding dress lost in North
Texas and the North Texas Tollway Authority is trying to find the owner. The
Tollway Authority said workers doing a cleanup project on the Dallas North
Tollway in Frisco spotted a white box at the side of the road that contained
the dress. They posted a photo of the white dress on Twitter in the hopes of
finding the owner. Their spokesman Michael Ray said: “This is not a Sally Field, Smokey and the Bandit deal,
it didn't go flying out of a vehicle per se. It's boxed up. It's clearly
somebody's memory somewhere along the way they lost track with it and we like
to reunite them.”

Ray said documents inside the box indicate the
dress was boxed more than 20 years ago, but the papers didn't provide many
other clues pointing at the identity of the owner. He said the authority will
hold the dress for at least 90 days while officials try to find the owner.

What about your wedding dress or I guess I
should say wedding garment because if you know Jesus as our Savior you have
one. It’s called the Robe of Righteousness.
Back in the Old Testament as Isaiah prophesies in Isaiah
61:10 he says: I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul
shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a
bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels.

When you were
saved, when you prayed for Jesus to forgive you of your sins to come into your
life and be your Lord and Savior. When you did that, you were washed in the
blood of Jesus, birthed into the Kingdom of God, sealed until the Day of Redemption
and you were clothed with a Robe of Righteousness.

What is the Robe of
Righteousness? It is the Righteousness of Jesus. Once
clothed with this Robe when the Father looks at your life, He no longer sees
the rotten worm of a sinner that you are. No, instead He sees the righteousness
of Jesus. Jesus who was tempted at all points without sin and suffered and died
on the cross for your sins.

The Robe of
Righteousness is your wedding garment and I want to make
it clear that once you have been clothed with it, you can never lose it. (This
is the Southern Baptist perspective Romans 8:35-39; John 10:27-30.)

However,
sometimes we do our best to try to throw our wedding garment away even though
it is not possible to do. We drag it through the mud of sin, and it might as
well be in a box thrown out on the side of a highway for all the care we give
it.

When we do
those things that we know are sins we are dragging our wedding garment through
the mud. When we refuse to pray, refuse
to assemble with other believers, when we refuse to give, refuse to serve we
are dragging our wedding garment through the mud. It might as well be in a box
cast out on the side of a highway.

If you’ve been doing that, dragging your wedding
garment through the mud of sin…. If you’ve been doing that and you want to
change the beginning point is always 1 John 1:9, “If we confess
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for the people of
Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to God.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W;
Addison; JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy
M.; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.;
and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us through
this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
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