Covenant Reformed News – June 2023 • Volume XIX, Issue 14
This article from Covenant Reformed News expounds on Galatians 3:27's metaphor of being "clothed with Christ," exploring how believers are covered with Christ's imputed righteousness in justification and imparted holiness in sanctification. The author develops the theme by showing how putting on Christ means sharing in His threefold office as prophet, priest, and king, and becoming conformed to the divine image through union with Him.
Clothed With Christ (1) Galatians 3:27 states that all of God’s people “have put on Christ.” To be clothed with Christ is to be covered with the robe of His righteousness (Isa. 61:10), the “best robe” (cf. Luke 15:22). This garment was fashioned by the Lord Jesus Himself through His perfect obedience to His Father during all of His life on earth and it is reckoned to us by faith alone. But this is not all that is meant by Galatians 3:27, for the verse says not that we “have put on...