“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity (excess) of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” (James 1:21)
This old life of sin which we wore as a garment before we were saved is to be cast aside. It is like the smelly, stinking rags we wore when we were beggars and tramps, down in the prodigal’s pig-pen. Lay them aside, not to be worn again.
We are clothed as the Prodigal Son was clothed with the best robe, given to him by his father. When we were children, after a day of playing in the hot summer sun we got a bath and came out clean and fresh. We did not put the old filthy, smudgy, smelly, sweaty garments back on. We put on clean clothes. So it is when someone gets saved.
The old song, “Are You Washed in the Blood” instructs us in the last verse; “Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin, And be washed in the blood of the Lamb; There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean, Oh be washed in the blood of the Lamb!”
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