Isn't It Glovely (How A CHRISTian Is Like A Glove)

The glove is lifeless
Flat and empty, dead. Only good for the fire!

(Ephesians 2:1) And you hath he quickened , who were dead in trespasses and sins;

     We are each & everyone of us dead. From the time we we are conceived to the time we are born and beyond, we are dead. We are dead men walking because we are sinners. We are dead in trespasses & sins. All of us.

(Psalms 51:5) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.; (Romans 5:12) Wherefore, as by one man [Kevin's Komment: Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:;

The glove can be filled

Rom 5.12 speaks of the "first man", Adam, from whom we are all sinners. Yet, there is a "second man," the LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE can take away, or cover, or cleanse our "trespasses and sins" which cause us to be dead.

(Ephesians 2:4) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
(Ephesians 2:5) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
(Ephesians 2:6) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Different types of gloves

• Brand New and Shiny



• New Looking, Hardly Worn



• Worn Out

Different Uses For Gloves

gifts of the spirit

It Fits

Like a building fitly joined together

(Ephesians 4:16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.