Hey, everybody. I'm Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. And of all the weird things,

we are pulling on the thread of a motif woven through the whole Bible about clothing,

about being robed and about that meaning more than just being naked or not naked. There's this

metaphor. There's this motif of being robed and specifically of God robing people in a certain identity,

in an identity that is in him, that is only from him, and that is very unchanging and very

permanent once he has put those robes upon you. If you haven't caught the last few days

of the podcast, this might be one of those where it really would make more sense if you went back and got those, but come at it however you want. All right, I'm going to have my

buddy Jeff play some music, and we're going to get after it.

Okay, we've all heard about Julius Caesar. He's a super famous guy in Rome. He died 40-ish years before Jesus was born. And he died in a sad way. I mean, he got shanked to death by all of his friends all at once in public. This is a bummer. It's not how you want to go. But I remember the first time I learned about the events leading up to that, how everything went south, how everything got to that point.

And there were several reasons where when I first heard it, I was like, oh, okay, I kind of get it.

I see how that could be threatening or why people got worked up about this or worked up about that.

But one that never made a ton of sense to me when I was younger was this

idea that somebody tried to get him to wear purple or wanted him to wear purple or maybe he

had a little bit of purple or something on for a while. I grew up in Colorado. We root for the

Rockies. Lots of people wear purple. It's not that big a deal. And you can buy a shirt

at King Supers. That's a grocery store. They shouldn't even sell shirts. But you can buy Rocky

shirts there for like six bucks. They're awful, but they have purple all over them. Six

bucks at a grocery store? That's for normal people. That's not a declaration of royalty. But it was when Caesar did it back in the day.

Purple was hard to make, it turns out. I understand this better now. There's a very specific

type of shell that only existed in a specific part of the ocean or the sea. And there's a very

specific refining process that was very expensive to make purple dye happen. And the sheer economic implications of all

of that were part of the reason that purple was such a rarity and part of the reason that purple

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