{"id":38978,"date":"2026-01-19T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38978"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:59:28","slug":"260119-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260119-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Covered in Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The Apostle Paul says, \u201cFor all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ\u201d (Galatians 3:27 NIV).\u00a0When you make God\u2019s story yours, he covers you in Christ. You wear him like a vest. Old labels no longer apply. How about these new labels:\u00a0Royal priest. Free from condemnation. Secure. God\u2019s coworker. God\u2019s temple. God\u2019s workmanship.<\/em>\u00a0Now you\u2019re dressed in a new wardrobe.<\/p>\n

Psalm 103:12 reminds us not to mess with the old clothes any longer. \u201cAs far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us<\/strong>\u201d (NIV). When God sends your sins to the east and you to the west, you can be sure of this: he sees his Son and not your sin. In fact, Isaiah 43:25 says he \u201cremembers your sins no more.\u201d How do you like that outfit?<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0God’s Story, Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Apostle Paul says, \u201cFor all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ\u201d (Galatians 3:27 NIV).\u00a0When you make God\u2019s story yours, he covers you in Christ. You wear him like a vest. Old labels no longer apply. How about these new labels:\u00a0Royal priest. Free from condemnation. Secure. God\u2019s coworker. God\u2019s temple. God\u2019s workmanship.\u00a0Now you\u2019re dressed in a new wardrobe.<\/p>\n

Psalm 103:12 reminds us not to mess with the old clothes any longer. \u201cAs far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us\u201d (NIV). When God sends your sins to the east and you to the west, you can be sure of this: he sees his Son and not your sin. In fact, Isaiah 43:25 says he \u201cremembers your sins no more.\u201d How do you like that outfit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38980,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions\/38980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}