TOPIC: The Shame Covering
DATE: Tuesday, August 11, 2015

“Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness” (Ephesians 6:14)

In the armor of saints, why did the scriptures start with the truth to cover our loins, and righteousness to cover our breast? This is a great mystery. The loins and the breast are symbols of the shame of a man. Shame is simply the opposite of the glory.

Remember Genesis 2 when Adam and Eve fell, they all of a sudden became naked, and they were full of shame. They did not become naked by putting off something; they became naked by eating up something, which we call the forbidden fruit.

Notice although they were in the Garden of Eden, a place of glory and mighty presence of God, a serpent sneaked in and beguiled them. It is the same thing that happened in Matthew 4. The bible says that Lucifer went into the place where Jesus had been praying for forty days, and tempted him.

He took him to the temple and opened the scriptures to him. The temple was the house of God, he quoted Psalm 91 which was also an accurate quotation from the scriptures, but the application was wrong.

This is the same way the devil invites men to church and open scriptures to them, but when they receive such word, they are corrupted, and full of shame. Shame is what the bible referred to when it said all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

The glory of God is the presence of God and the presence of God is the name of God, the name of God refers to the dimensions of God, but one God. This is why there are only two covering for our unclothedness, truth and righteousness.

Truth and Righteousness is what makes us like God. But there is no vacuum, in the absence of glory men will use leaves. What leaves have you used to cover your unclothedness, it is time you contend for truth and righteousness. And only the Holy Spirit through the word can give.

Challenge the words you have received, anything that is not glory is leaves. Be careful of the “truth” you receive. Seek his desperately his glory. Truth is Jesus and righteousness is by faith. So faith in Jesus is the beginning of the covering our unclothedness.

SELAH: Two of the greatest armor of combat is Truth and Righteousness

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