The title of the message is taken
from verse 14, but let's begin reading in verse nine, read up
to that. The title is, Washed White in
the Blood of the Lamb. Washed White in the Blood of
the Lamb. But look at verse nine. This
is, you remember in the first hours, I did the first half of
this chapter, that each message will stand on its own. But remember
back in, Revelation 6 and verse 17, the last verse, he spoke
of the great day of God's wrath. And understand that God's wrath
now is God's justice. That's the only way that we can
scripturally understand the wrath of God is God's justice. And it's not just in natural
disasters and things like that. That's part of it. But the ultimate
The ultimate manifestation or revelation or enacting of God's
wrath against sin is eternal damnation. Eternal damnation. And that's where we want to understand
this. This is where our minds go to.
The great day of his wrath. And he asks this question in
verse 17 of Revelation 6. He says, and who shall be able
to stand? Who shall be able to stand? You
might be able to look at it this way. Whether we're alive when the
Lord comes back the second time in his return, or whether we
die and stand before God at judgment, the Bible says that there is
a time appointed for men to die, and after that, the judgment.
And the question is, is how will I stand before God at judgment? That's the issue. Who will be
able to stand? Now, in the context here, he's asking the question,
who's going to be able to stand when God's wrath comes? Well,
that's what we're talking about. When we stand before God at judgment,
what are we going to say? You remember in Matthew chapter
7, verses 21 through 23, remember when the Lord said there, that's
part of the Sermon on the Mount. And he said, many will say unto
me in that day, And that's the day he's talking about here,
the day of God's wrath, the day of God's justice. You see, God's
wrath is not God throwing a temper tantrum. God's wrath is God's
justice against sin. Well, he said, many will say
unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? Have we not cast out demons?
Have we not done many wonderful works? Only to hear him say,
depart from me ye that work iniquity. Iniquity. Now, what is he calling
iniquity? Well, they're prophesying in
his name, they're casting out demons, they're doing many wonderful
works. They saw those things as righteousness. The Lord calls
them iniquity, which means inequity. It means it doesn't measure up,
doesn't balance out, it doesn't equal righteousness. And he said,
depart from me ye that work iniquity, for I never knew you. And that
no there is that intimate knowledge in electing grace and love. I
mean, the Lord knew who they were. He was aware of them. He
knew their hearts. So what are you gonna do? The
Bible says in Acts 17 and verse 31 that God is going to judge
all the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained
and that he hath given assurance unto all men and that he has
raised him from the dead. So how will we stand? Well, look
here in verse 9 of Revelation 7. He said, after this I beheld
and lo a great multitude which no man could number. Now, I believe
that he's given a further description of those who he identified earlier
as the 144,000. That's a symbolic number of the
complete elect of God, the church. And it's a multitude that no
man could number, but God numbers, you see. God numbers them. And it says of all nations and
kindreds and people and tongues. This is not just, this is not
confined to any one nation like Israel or America. It's not confined
to any one ethnic group. It's God's elect out of every
tribe, kindred, tongue and nation. And they stood before the throne
and before the Lamb. Now the throne there represents
the sovereign rule of God. The Lamb is the Lord Jesus Christ
unto whom the Father has committed all judgment. Now these, this
multitude, it says they stand before the throne and before
the Lamb and they are clothed with white robes and palms in
their hands. Now white robes speaks of their
justification before God. They're accepted. White meaning
no blemish, no sin. That's what it's talking about.
So this multitude is standing before a holy God without sin. Now, how is that possible? You
might say, well, now, you know, a lot of people, in their reasoning,
they might say something like this. They say, well, you know,
I know I'm not as bad as some people, but I'm still not perfect.
Well, these are. These who are standing here are
in white robes, they're perfect! Let me think about it. And I
ask the question, how could that include me? How could I stand
there? Because I know myself. I know,
and listen, God knows me better than I know myself. I mean that evil thought that
just shot through somebody's head, the Lord knows that. Aren't you glad I didn't see
it or somebody else didn't see it here today? We're here to worship God. Now
think about that. Now God, God who put you here
on this earth, God who gave you all the privileges and the health
God who gave you the next breath you draw, all right? You're here
to worship him and serve him. Do you have to fight within yourself
to worship God? I do. I'm just being honest with
you now. You say, well, you're the preacher.
Well, yeah, I'm a sinner saved by grace. That's what I am. We
have a struggle with these things, you see. And these here who are
standing before the lamb clothed in white robes, they're perfect
without sin. And then it says they have palms
in their hands. That's worship. Remember when
Christ rode into Jerusalem, they had palm leaves and they cried,
Hosanna, Lord save us. That indicates worship, acclamation. So they're standing before God
in white robes. They're standing before God righteous. What is it to be righteous? It's
to be perfect before God. That's what righteousness is.
It's perfect satisfaction to the law and the justice of God.
And they're worshiping God. So there's their justification
and they've been brought to see the glory of the Lamb and they're
worshiping with palms in their hands, they're praising Him.
And that worship means they depend on him, they have faith in him,
they love him, all of that. And here's what they're saying,
look at verse 10, they cried with loud voice saying, salvation
to our God which sitteth upon the throne, salvations of the
Lord. They're not boasting in the fact
that they preached in his name, they're not boasting in the fact
that they've cast out demons. They're not boasting in the fact
that they've done many wonderful works. They're not boasting in
the fact that they made a decision or got baptized or joined the
church or reformed their lives. They're not glorying in anything
other than themselves. Now let me explain that to you.
I want you to listen to me very carefully here now. Think back
to the passage that I just referred to in Matthew 7. Now here these
fellows are, and they said, Lord, haven't we preached in your name?
Now is there anything wrong with preaching in his name? The answer
is no. There's nothing wrong with, I'm
preaching in his name right now. Preaching the scriptures, preaching
the word of God, preaching Christ. There's nothing wrong with that.
In fact, that's really the only thing we have on this earth that's
worth anything eternally. But here's the point. My preaching
in his name, one time or a million times, can never equal the righteousness
that God requires for me to be saved. If I think that my preaching
is my righteousness before God, then what am I going to hear
from the Lord at judgment? Depart from me, ye that work
iniquity. My preaching, my prayers, my seeking to do good. And we,
listen, believers ought to try to be the best people on earth.
But that can never be our righteousness before God. That cannot be my
white robe. That's what I'm saying. It won't
equal out. It'll be iniquity. The best that
I can do will not equal righteousness. It will fall short. The best! That's why the psalmist said
man at his best state is altogether what? Vanity. So where am I, a sinner, going
to find righteousness? In the Lamb, in Christ. Now hold that thought. So it
says salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and under
the Lamb There's my hope. There's our salvation. There's
my righteousness. There's my forgiveness, right
there. And verse 11, and all the angels stood round about
the throne and about the elders and the four beasts. Elders there
representing the leadership of the church. The four beasts,
that's four living animals, which represent the ministers that
go out preaching the gospel. The reason they are four, because
they go out all of the earth, north, south, east, west. That's
what he's talking about. And they fell before the throne
on their faces and worshiped God, saying, Amen. You know what
Amen means? It means so be it. And what it's
saying here is whatever God says, that's the way it is, whether
I understand it or not. Brother Gary Shepard, when he
was, I think it was him or either Jim Burr, they were preaching
up at our place a couple weekends ago, and one of them mentioned
somebody had said to him about talking about the great doctrines
of predestination and election and all that. They said, well,
I just can't wrap my mind around that. And I got up and I said,
after the mess, I said, well, let me tell you something. If
you ever find a God you can wrap your mind around, get away from
him. Your mind's bigger than his. You see, that's the issue. Listen, God is God and we are,
you know, just I told you, I think one time about, he was a false
preacher, but he did have two good things. He did have one
good thing to say. He told a fella, he was about 90 years old. He
told this fella, he said, in all the years I've been studying
the Bible, he said, there's two things that I've learned. And
the guy said, what? And he said, there is a God and
I ain't him. And that's the way it is. Now
hopefully we'll learn more than that by revelation. But you see,
they said amen. Whatever God says in this book,
that's the way it is whether I can wrap my mind around it
or not. I know what the scripture says.
It says the secret things belong to God. The revealed things belong
to us. So they said, amen. And then
they said, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and
honor. Look at it, verse 12. And power and might be unto our
God forever and ever. Everything is ascribed to God.
They're not bragging on themselves. Everything here is ascribed to
Christ. God in human flesh, the lamb. You see, this thing about judgment,
listen, this thing about salvation, and judgment and eternity. It's not about you and about
me and what we do and how much we do or how little we do. It's
all about what Christ has accomplished on Calvary. And that's the missing
thing in religion today. And they said, be in our God
forever and ever. Amen. Look at verse 13. And one of
the elders answered, saying unto me, Revelation 7, 13, What are
these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence came they?
Who are they, and where did they come from? That's what he's asking.
Who are they, and where did they come from? And I said unto him,
Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, these are
they which came out of great tribulation, great trouble. Trouble, trouble, trouble. Now
don't relegate that to a seven-year tribulation period. That's not
what it's talking about. the troubles of this life, and
not just like Job had, I know we always refer to Job and his
troubles, and some people do have troubles like that, but
he's talking about troubles that come from identifying with Christ. Because once you identify with
the true Christ, you've got troubles. You know that. We were talking
about this weekend how When the Lord brought me, and Randy was
talking about it, and Jim, when the Lord brought us to a saving
knowledge of Christ, it flat turned our world upside down.
I mean, everything I thought in, I mean, I was raised in religion.
How about you all? I was baptized when I was 12
years old, somewhere around there. Well, sorry, I was dunked in
water when I was 12 years old. I went through the rites of passage,
just like most of y'all did. And when I first heard the gospel,
the true gospel, of how God can be just and justify, it turned
my world upside down. I thought, man, I've never even
considered these. I never even thought of these
things, let alone knew them or heard. But you see, that's the
trouble he's talking about. Now, there's a lot of blessing.
Now, don't get me wrong. I mean, there's blessedness.
But they came out of great tribulation. And look here, it says, they
have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb. Washed their robes, made them white in the blood of the
Lamb. That's the title, washed white in the blood of the Lamb.
Now the question is then, and here's the issue, that if I'm
going to stand before God at the judgment, if I'm going to escape Just deserts
of the wrath of God and remember what I said in the first message
now listen This thing about salvation this thing about heaven It's
not a matter of what I deserve or what I've earned if it is
I won't be there You won't either you may think you will but you
won't You can do everything you can to earn it you can do everything
you can to deserve it But we're sinners if God at any time gives
us what we've earned or what we deserve It would be eternal
damnation That's our ruination by the fall
in Adam. That's what we deserve, for the
wages of sin is death. So this is not about what we
deserve or what we've earned. But when I stand before God at
the judgment, here's what he's saying, when we stand before
God at judgment, the only way that we're going to stand there
justified, accepted, And hear the Lord say, well done thou
good and faithful servant. Even that. Is to stand there
having washed our robes and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb. Now the question is have I washed my robes and made them
white in the blood? Have you done it? Or do you stand
there with a blemished robe? Some say, well, you know, I'm
going to stand there and present my works before God. You know
what that is? That's a filthy robe. That's
not a white robe. That's a blemished robe. How
can that robe be made white? Only as it's washed in the blood
of the Lamb. Now you know and I know that this is symbolic
language. This is not, you know, some people
would say, I mean, it's not a bottle of literal blood and a literal
white robe or a little robe poured with that blood. You know that
that would be silly for us. It's talking about symbolism.
It's using symbols to teach a truth. Now, what truth is it teaching?
Well, this picture and this type has its beginnings way back in
the book of Genesis. And I want you to turn to Genesis
chapter 3. Genesis chapter 3. Now first of all, what does blood
in the scripture typify and symbolize? Well, it typifies and symbolizes
death. So that when we talk about the
blood of Christ, or the blood of His cross, we're talking about
His death. Now why is that important? You
know, The scripture teaches that this, that the only way that
sin, sin in any form, in any way, can be justly paid for is
by death. I quoted that verse, we quote
it all the time. Romans 6, 23, the wages of sin
is death. In Hebrews chapter 10, he makes
this statement, he said, Without the shedding of blood, there's
no remission, forgiveness of sins without death. In other
words, where there's sin charged, somebody's got to die. Capital
punishment. That's what it teaches. That's
what the Bible teaches. There's no way out of this sin problem
except death. And it's either my death eternally
or somebody has to take my place and die an equivalent death in
my place. Somebody, three qualifications,
somebody whom God appoints, somebody who's qualified, and somebody
who's willing. Now look back at Genesis chapter
three. Now this is after the fall. You remember God told Adam
in the day that you eat thereof, that is of the fruit of the tree
of the knowledge of good In that day you shall surely die. That
means sin brings death. In that day you shall surely
die. Now Adam didn't die physically
immediately, but the process of physical death began at that
time. His body began dying. The Bible says in Romans chapter
eight, this body is dead because of sin. So where there's sin,
there's gotta be death. Now he says, you know, Adam and
Eve, they fell. They fell into spiritual death,
they fell under condemnation, all of that. And then immediately,
the Lord brings forth a promise of salvation. Now look at it. He says in verse 15, look at
Genesis 3, 15. He says, I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy
head, that's death, and thou shalt bruise his heel, that's
death. Now who's that talking about? Well, if you know anything
about Scripture, you know that's the first prophecy of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He's the woman's seed. He's the
only Savior of sinners. His name shall be called Jesus.
What does Jesus mean? It means Jehovah saves. That's
what that means. Yeshua, Jehovah our Savior. Matthew 121, His name shall be
called Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins. He's
the only one. Well, He's the only one whom
God appointed. There's no other Savior. Buddha is not a Savior
of sinners. He may have some good things
to say for people to get along in this world, but he's not a
savior. Mohammed is not a savior. Confucius is not a savior of
sinners. He's not a redeemer. There's
only one appointed of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the second
person of the Trinity, the eternal son of God, the great I am. So he meets the first qualification. He's appointed of God. And he
was appointed in the everlasting covenant of grace as God chose
a people and gave them to him. Now, is he qualified? Well, he's
going to be the woman's seed. What's that speak of? His humanity. Without the aid of man, he wasn't
born in sin like we were. We're talking about that as a
result of sin imputed to us, we were born in sin. Those are
two separate acts, you say. Now Christ was not born in sin
like you were and like I was. He was born of the Virgin Mary.
He was created in the womb of the Virgin by the Holy Spirit. He had a human body, human soul,
created for him in the womb, united with his deity, but without
sin. So is he qualified? Well, remember
over Matthew 121, his name shall be called Jesus for he shall
save his people from their sins. Down in verse 23 it says, his
name shall be called Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God
with us. He's God in human flesh. Yes,
that means this, he's qualified. He's able to do it. Mere man
could not put away our sins. And listen, God cannot die. But this person who is God, he
did die. So he's qualified. Well, is he
willing? Well, John 13 one says he loved
his own people unto the end. End mean the finishing of the
work. He's willing. He's willing to save to the uttermost
and he's able to save to the uttermost. Now that's what he's
saying. Well, look over in verse 20 of Genesis three. Now you
remember what Adam and Eve did when they fell, what did they
do? They became aware of their shame,
their nakedness. Remember that? And what'd they
do? Well, they got these big fig leaves and they sewed them
together and they tried to cover it up. And that's what man tries
to do by nature. He's on a mission to cover up
sin. And you know how he does it?
False works religion. And that's what those fig leaves
represent. He'll say, well, someday I'll join the church. Well, I'll
cover it up. It won't bring, it won't atone
for it. It won't take care of the problem, but it'll cover
it up. You know, I'll get baptized or I'll do, I'll make a, I'll
turn over a new leaf. All of this, you see. That's,
that's the fig leaf apers. Now look what happened. In, in
Genesis chapter three, look at verse 21. I said verse 20, look
at verse 21. It says unto Adam also and to
his wife did the Lord make coats of skins. and clothed them. Now, what do you have to do to
make a coat of skin? You gotta shed blood. You gotta
kill an animal. And out of that blood, out of
that shedding of that blood of that animal came a coat of skin. What is that teaching? Well,
it's teaching that the only way that a sinner can stand before
God, holy and righteous, is through the blood of a substitute. Now, an animal couldn't do it.
That was just a type, that was just a picture, that was an object
lesson. It's only through the blood of
the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, as our substitute, our representative,
having our sins charged to his account, laid to his charge,
imputed to him as he went to the cross and died for those
sins. He died for his people. He put
away our sins. And God established a precedent
right here in Genesis 3 that the only way that any sinner
can be saved, the only way that any sinner can call upon the
name of, you know the Bible says, whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. Now that's true. Anybody, listen,
anybody who wants salvation, God's way has it. And they call upon the name of
the Lord. But how did they do it? Well, in Genesis chapter
4, you have an example of it. Cain and Abel. Remember what
Cain did. Cain, he wanted to worship God.
He sought acceptance before God. How did he do it? By the works
of his hands. He brought the fruit of the ground.
He was a farmer. And he worked hard and he brought
the first fruits, the crop, the best of that crop to present
before God to seek salvation, to seek acceptance and blessing.
And God rejected Cain and his offering. Why? Because by deeds
of law shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. Without the shedding
of blood, there's no remission of sin. But now here comes Abel.
What did Abel bring? He brought the blood of a lamb.
That's the only way that a sinner can be made righteous. You see,
our robe, the robe that we wear represents there what we present
before God as our righteousness. And unless that robe is washed
clean, washed white in the blood of the Lamb, it's blemished. It's not equitable. It's not righteous. Look over
at Genesis Chapter 12. The first time in the Bible that
the term called upon the name of the Lord is used is right
here in Abraham. The first time that that term
is used. Now that's not the first time we see a man calling upon
the name of the Lord. Abel was the first example of
that. He brought the blood of the Lamb. But the first time
that phrase is used in the English Bible called upon the name of
the Lord is right here in Genesis chapter 12, and I want you to
look at it, verse 7. Here's Abraham. It says, and
the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, unto thy seed
will I give this land, and there built he an altar unto the Lord
who appeared to him. Now, first thing Abraham did,
when the Lord revealed himself to Abraham, Abraham built an
altar. Now, why did he build an altar? What do you do with
an altar? You present a sacrifice. Look at verse eight. He removed
from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and having
Bethel on the west and Hai on the east, and there he built
an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. He
called upon the name of the Lord through sacrifice, just like
Abel. You want to call upon the name
of the Lord? You say, well, preacher, am I gonna go out here and build
an altar and get an animal and slay it? Not today. Back in Abraham's
day, that's what you'd have to do, not because there was any
saving power in that animal, but because of what that animal
pictured, what that blood pictured, the promise of a coming Redeemer,
by whose blood sinners are made righteous. Now go back to Revelation
chapter seven, What did he say here? Who are these who are standing
before the throne? Remember, he asked that question,
in the great day of his wrath, who shall stand? Well, here they
are. They're standing before the throne. They're accepted. They have fellowship and communion
with God. Who are they, the man asked.
He wasn't asking for information, because he said, you know, remember
there in verse 14, sir, thou knowest, you know who they are.
In other words, he's not asking this question for information,
he's asking it to make a point to us. Here they are, the wrath
of God's coming through. It's gonna, listen, anyone to
whom sin is charged will be destroyed. Now how can I stand? I'm a sinner.
Well, what did David say? Psalm 32, blessed is the man
to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, charges not iniquity.
Blessed is the person to whom God does not charge sin. Well,
who's God gonna charge it to? He must be just. He charged it
to Christ. And Christ put him away. Who
are these? They are they who come out of great trouble, the
trouble of their own sin, the trouble of their own conviction,
and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. Now turn over to Revelation 19. This robe, how important is it? Well, I'll tell you what, it's
our salvation. It's our eternal security. That's what this robe
is. It's our complete, unchangeable,
eternal, uninterrupted standing before a holy God that protects
us eternally from His wrath. Look at Revelation 19. He's talking
about the marriage of the Lamb here. Now the lamb is Christ. Who's he gonna marry? That's
his church. That's the elect of God, the redeemed of the Lord,
you see. That's who he saves by his power
and his grace and his mercy. And he says in verse 7 of Revelation
19, he says, let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him
for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife hath made
herself ready. Now what does she do to make
herself ready? Well, she gets real religious and joins a church
and gets baptized. No, you know what she does? She
washes her robes white in the blood of the lamb. But go on,
listen to, and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in
fine linen. Now notice, notice it says there to her, it was
granted. What does that mean? It means
she didn't earn this. It was given. It's a gift. This is grace. The Bible says in Romans 5.21
that grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ
our Lord. It's a gift. If you have righteousness
before God, it's a gift. You didn't earn it, you didn't
deserve it, you didn't work it out. It was given freely. And he says that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen
is the righteousness of saints. Now what is a saint in the Bible?
A saint in the Bible is a sinner saved by grace. It's not a super
Christian. It's not one who's been canonized.
It's not one who performed three miracles. A saint is a miracle
him or herself because anyone whom God saves, that's a miracle
of grace. Sanctified one. What is the righteousness
of saints? We'll turn to Romans chapter
10. Listen to this. What is this righteousness of
saints? I want to tell you something.
You go through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and I challenge
you to find one example of any saint who boasted of his own
or her own works as being their righteousness before God. You
won't find it, it's not there. You might find it here on earth,
somebody who claims to be a saint boasting of their own righteousness,
but you won't find it in the Bible. What is the righteousness
of saints? Well, look at Romans chapter
10, look at verse one. He says, brethren, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be
saved praying for their salvation. For I bear them record, they
have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. They're zealous
in religion, but they're ignorant of something. He says, for they
being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God. Now, what is the righteousness
of God? Look at verse four. Here's the definition of it.
For Christ, is the end of the law, the finishing fulfillment
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. What
is it to wash your robes white in the blood of the lamb? It's
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and submit to him as your
only righteousness before God. He is the Lord, my righteousness. I have no other. I have no other. Righteousness before God. I think
the last time I was here I preached from Revelation 16 on Armageddon. And the one thing that really
impressed me in that passage of Armageddon in Revelation 16
that I had not really seen before in the light that I see it now
is when he's going through that revelation of Armageddon, that
last final battle, he has a little interlude there as he's describing
verse 15 in Revelation 16. And he says this, he says, behold
I come as a thief. That's the second coming of Christ.
That means he's going to come to the world unawares. Now we
don't know, we as believers, we don't know when he's coming
back, but we know he is. We expect him to. But the world
will be taken fully by surprise. And he says, behold, I come as
a thief. And he says, blessed is he that watcheth, that means
stays awake. That's really literally what
it means, stays awake. In other words, you'll be aware
of the word of God. You're expecting him to come.
And then it says, and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see
his shame." Now what does that tell me? In other words, what
you're to be concerned with about this issue of the coming judgment,
the second coming of Christ, Armageddon, what you're to be
concerned with, what I'm to be concerned with, is my garments,
what I'm wearing. Now you know and I know that
that doesn't talk about, that doesn't mean physical clothing.
Whether you've got on designer clothes or hobo's rags or anything
like that. What's it talking about? Well
it says, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. When was
the first time that man ever saw his shame? Back in the garden. When he fell. And they were ashamed
of their nakedness, and so what did they try to do? They tried
to make a garment of their own with fig leaf aprons. Man tries
to make a garment of his own to cover his shame, his guilt,
his defilement, his sin by his works. Let me tell you something,
that garment won't stand in the last day. But what is the garment
that will stand? That white robe washed white
in the blood of the Lamb. That's the imputed righteousness
of Christ. That's what that is. That's what
he accomplished on Calvary. That's his merits. I don't stand
before God in my own merits. It's his. He's my glory. That's why Paul said, God forbid
that I should glory save in the cross his death. That's my righteousness. Washed white in the blood of
the lamb. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you
for that white robe washed white in the blood of Christ. We thank
you for saving us from our sins, dear Lord, by his death upon
the cross, whereby righteousness is established and we can stand
before thee whole and accepted and complete in the beloved.