Old
and New Testament Jumpers and Key Gospel Truths
Old Testament jumpers
– no mixed fibres, holiness, separateness
Leviticus 19:19 - “You
shall keep my statutes…. You shall not you wear a garment of cloth made of two
kinds of material.
Deuteronomy 22:11 - “You shall not wear cloth of
wool and linen mixed together.”
The basic idea of holiness is separation, distinctness,
to be set apart as special, separate from all sin
It was never about jumpers that God was
principally concerned!
The clothing is a picture of the people of
God.
The holiness and purity of the people of God.
New Testament jumpers
New Testament: ceremonial law abolished (Jesus
declared all foods clean, for example. The curtain in the temple torn in two by
God, the temple destroyed in AD 70 etc.)
Of course the church must continue to be
distinct and holy (salt etc.)
But your jumper can now contain mixed fibres!
And likewise the church contains people of
every tribe and language and people and nation made one by faith in Christ and
set apart from the world.
In the New Testament there is a new welcome, a
new radical inclusion in Christ who makes us holy and overcomes our divisions.
This multicoloured, variegated church of black and white, rich and poor,
educated and uneducated, etc. etc. displays the manifold wisdom of God.
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