Lasagna, Sack Cloth, and Christianity.

As many on this forum that like to throw doctrine out, I come not to chastise but to lay down the stones. No response is stupid, but this simple lesson requires much thought.

Ok I will provide the corner on which this stone was built. The first meaning of Sack Cloth, Humility. That is the cornerstone of this lesson.

Repentance
"Then He began to upbraid the cities where most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. "Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."

I remember my mother telling me how fortunate I was to wear a suit to church. Her mother fashioned her Sunday clothes out of burlap potato bags during the depression. I just gave you all another hint.

These were the clothes his disciples dressed in, how many times has this been over looked? The importance serves both antiquity and modernity.

Mourning
"Then Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days." (Genesis 37:34 RSV) (see Coat Of Many Colors)
"Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Rend your clothes, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier." (2 Samuel 3:31 RSV)

"When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry" (Esther 4:1 RSV) (see Haman)

OP the story of esther and modecai is one of the most beautful stories in ny opinion and how it reflects the future for Gods people in the end time.
I suggest this reading strongly

I thirst not for doctrine but meaning. Doctrine is idle without thought. Think of when Christ delivers his blessed be....in the Gospels.

Stone #2 meek

Often we get lost in the Words, bring forth not scriptures but meaning. Real wisdom is found in the portrait that is painted. As lasagna this is layered.

The story is great indeed.



However, I am bringing a simple message of how much has been over looked.

They could have said any type of garment but they said Sack cloth. What do Sacks do?

Like this OP?

Yes but the signifance is another thing. His disciples were clothed like this why?

1. Humility
2. Meek


There is no specify order. Just think about Sack and cloth. Think about his disciples and what they were given.

His disciples were representations of Him. Why was it he asked them to clothe themselves in this manner? He fulfilled everything that came before, and he knew everything that would come after. Antiquity vs Modernity.

A death and submission of the fleshy desires followed by prayer and fasting?

Try not to over think. A sack holds things it is a container. Sack cloth as were potato bags were common, but it takes someone crafty to fashion it into a garment, nowadays.

Their clothing was a container of knowledge, because they were the chosen representatives of the Kingdom of Heaven. Sack and cloth. There is much more to this lesson.

So we have

1. Humility
2. Meek
3. Knowledge

Key word in that past post among many was Common. Everyone had sack cloth back in the day. So what does that tell us? How were the Pharisees dressed? How were they seen among the people?

I don't come to tell anyone they are wrong, I come to proclaim the Kingdom of God.

understanding?

Any one of this world is not of Him. Did not the Pharisees show us that with the show they put forth before the people? You have to loose the world to find Him, because his ways far greater then this world. It isn't until we sacrifice everything that we have gained. Jesus tells us that about our own lives.

Sack cloth was common everyone had it from the poor to the rich. Jesus asked his disciples to clothe themselves in sack cloth. Meaning God has given us all the tools to the Kingdom, we have to seek it out with all our heart without vanity, ego, pride, selfishness.

The sack is the container, the were clothed in the container of Heaven because they were the chosen. They were sinners, murderers, heathen of sorts, and they changed they world.

The garment is only another layered message from God and the Kingdom. Put yourself upon the garment of the Kingdom, well what does that look like? It looks like Sack cloth

OK its indicative of putting away the old man and be renewed by a humbling of self in a lowly state.Then being revived in a new undertanding and relationship with the father

Another meaning is prudence. They were representatives of the Kingdom and they were dressed how? How would God's church look today? Not like anything I have cast my eyes upon!

Wake up children of God wake up.

Last Edited by Troy. on 02/05/2013 06:25 PM

And there you go your path just got narrower. God is the seamstress of every man he provides the only garment. Not the garment which has clothed the Church of today.

Well done my friend!

Here is some water for your stores and you will also find some bread for your sack.

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Last Edited by IAMIAM on 02/05/2013 06:30 PM

And by the way it is not a lowly state it is the only state, for it encompasses everything he has taught us. The blessed b's. the cloth representation of the blessed b's.

Put forth your back unto God that he might rest his foot upon it, and when he does might that impression be one of Wisdom. Wisdom only comes from submission, and love only from the Father. As any Father he is the ultimate teacher.

The overall message that the Kingdom provides in the teaching of the sackcloth is that we are all called to be disciples of God, and not students of man. This is why the path is wide because Jesus knew men are LAZY. The Gospels gave us the Image of the Kingdom now all you have to do is come before God, in that image, and as I said let yourself be the footstool and he will fashion your garment for you. It doesn't matter your color, income, your marital status, etc those are labels not from Heaven.

The image is all in the clothes that his disciples wore. Your his footstool because whether you like it are not your life is of his Dominion, as with all things in His universe.