Post by Bud on Mar 21, 2014 7:40:36 GMT -6
The Church (The Mystery)
2ooo years ago something happened as something new came on the scene as the result of the death,burial and resurrection of Christ.
Israel had rejected their Messiah.Did that mean the end of God's plan for Israel?Did that mean that God had failed with Israel?Was God's plan undone?
Out of the rejection by Israel of their King and Kingdom and the crucifying of their Messiah,something was born that was a mystery hidden in God and hadn't been revealed to man through the Word of God.
As a result of Israel's rejection of their Messiah,God's plans for Israel and the Nations,that had been prophesied in the Old Testament was put on hold and a whole new entity came into being.
A larger purpose of God was born,"The Church of His Dear Son."Elect and blood bought mystic bride.A mystic body,He the head.A temple,He the base,the chief cornerstone.
This mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.The unveiling of this mystery was made known unto the apostle Paul and the ministering according to the gift of the Grace of God was given unto Him.(Ephesians 3:1-7)
This mystery that the Jews and Gentiles be combined into one body,separate from the nation of Israel or the nations.A separate group indwelt of the Spirit of God and a oneness with Christ and with one another in this new body.Christ in us.Being formed and living in an age of Grace,like no other age since the creation.A new creation.
A oneness like a husband and wife in marriage,joined to one another and to Christ as one (A Loving Union).
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."(2Corinthians 11:2)
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."(Ephesians 5:25-32)
A oneness as a temple built together with stones joined as one in Him (A Lasting Union).
"Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit."(Ephesians 2:19-22)
Joined together as a body,Jew and Gentile as each one a part that makes up that body in Him (A Living Union).
(Romans 12:4-5,Ephesians 3:6,,Colossians 1:26-27)
"For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another."(Romans 12:4-5)
"that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel"(Ephesians 3:6)
"the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.(Colossians 1:26-27)
This mystic body,building,bride was hidden in God and is now manifesting the manifold wisdom of God.(1st Corinthians 2:7,Ephesians 3:10)
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory"(1st Corinthians 2:7)
"to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places"(Ephesians 3:10)
Christ the vine and we the branches.(A Fruitful Union)
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."(John 15:5)
"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."(Romans 7:4)
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."(Galatians 5:22-23)
Christ the firstborn and we His brethen.(A Joint-heirship Union)
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."(Romans 8:16-17)
The Church a heavenly body of people with spiritual blessings in the heavenlies as against Israel an earthly people of God with material blessings in the earth.
Then when this body is complete another mystery of God will be manifested in His removal of this body from the earth.
"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."(1st Corinthians 15:51-52)
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words."(1ST Thessalonians 4:13-18)
In the meantime while Christ is building His Church blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the Church is complete.This too is a mystery.
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." (Romans 11:25)
This fulness of the Gentiles,the completion of the Church,could be almost complete because we are seeing sign's pointing towards the time when God will resume His work with Israel and the Nations prophesied in God's Word and that has been postponed these 2000 years.
Israel back in the Land as a nation after 2500 years.
The Roman Empire coming back together within the E.U.
The Arab nations coming together in an alignment against Israel.
Persia (Iran)Babylon (Iraq)Turkey,Syria,Egypt and the African Nations and others all lining up for this endtime fulfillment.
Russia and the Kings of the East (China,Japan,Korea,Indonesia,India,Pakistan and others)all being lined up.
The Apostasy in the Church and the world's attitude toward Christians is getting worse by the day.
Then there is the USA,not mentioned in Scripture directly and no indication of a single nation power of our magnitude in the West during the endtime.But with the leadership this nation has now and it doesn't look like there is any change coming,we could decline as a world power very quickly.
It seems this is what our leaders want,with maybe a more powerful position for them in a new world order and the USA just another least significant nation.
I do believe they would sell out this nation as a world power to gain a higher position in a new world order.I believe they will do it through deception.We have leaders in this nation and other nations today that are masters of deception.Of course the news media is their greatest asset in accomplishing this deception.
As Christians we truly need the mind of Christ to be able to discern this deception and to not let it control our thinking and take our eyes off what our true purpose in this world is.
Yes one day and I believe soon this Church,this Bride,this Body,this Temple will be complete and we will go to meet our Savior.What in all eternity could be greater than that very first glimpse of His face.Oh what a moment that will be.
JUST MAYBE TODAY
2ooo years ago something happened as something new came on the scene as the result of the death,burial and resurrection of Christ.
Israel had rejected their Messiah.Did that mean the end of God's plan for Israel?Did that mean that God had failed with Israel?Was God's plan undone?
Out of the rejection by Israel of their King and Kingdom and the crucifying of their Messiah,something was born that was a mystery hidden in God and hadn't been revealed to man through the Word of God.
As a result of Israel's rejection of their Messiah,God's plans for Israel and the Nations,that had been prophesied in the Old Testament was put on hold and a whole new entity came into being.
A larger purpose of God was born,"The Church of His Dear Son."Elect and blood bought mystic bride.A mystic body,He the head.A temple,He the base,the chief cornerstone.
This mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.The unveiling of this mystery was made known unto the apostle Paul and the ministering according to the gift of the Grace of God was given unto Him.(Ephesians 3:1-7)
This mystery that the Jews and Gentiles be combined into one body,separate from the nation of Israel or the nations.A separate group indwelt of the Spirit of God and a oneness with Christ and with one another in this new body.Christ in us.Being formed and living in an age of Grace,like no other age since the creation.A new creation.
A oneness like a husband and wife in marriage,joined to one another and to Christ as one (A Loving Union).
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."(2Corinthians 11:2)
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."(Ephesians 5:25-32)
A oneness as a temple built together with stones joined as one in Him (A Lasting Union).
"Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit."(Ephesians 2:19-22)
Joined together as a body,Jew and Gentile as each one a part that makes up that body in Him (A Living Union).
(Romans 12:4-5,Ephesians 3:6,,Colossians 1:26-27)
"For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another."(Romans 12:4-5)
"that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel"(Ephesians 3:6)
"the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.(Colossians 1:26-27)
This mystic body,building,bride was hidden in God and is now manifesting the manifold wisdom of God.(1st Corinthians 2:7,Ephesians 3:10)
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory"(1st Corinthians 2:7)
"to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places"(Ephesians 3:10)
Christ the vine and we the branches.(A Fruitful Union)
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."(John 15:5)
"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."(Romans 7:4)
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."(Galatians 5:22-23)
Christ the firstborn and we His brethen.(A Joint-heirship Union)
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."(Romans 8:16-17)
The Church a heavenly body of people with spiritual blessings in the heavenlies as against Israel an earthly people of God with material blessings in the earth.
Then when this body is complete another mystery of God will be manifested in His removal of this body from the earth.
"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."(1st Corinthians 15:51-52)
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words."(1ST Thessalonians 4:13-18)
In the meantime while Christ is building His Church blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the Church is complete.This too is a mystery.
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." (Romans 11:25)
This fulness of the Gentiles,the completion of the Church,could be almost complete because we are seeing sign's pointing towards the time when God will resume His work with Israel and the Nations prophesied in God's Word and that has been postponed these 2000 years.
Israel back in the Land as a nation after 2500 years.
The Roman Empire coming back together within the E.U.
The Arab nations coming together in an alignment against Israel.
Persia (Iran)Babylon (Iraq)Turkey,Syria,Egypt and the African Nations and others all lining up for this endtime fulfillment.
Russia and the Kings of the East (China,Japan,Korea,Indonesia,India,Pakistan and others)all being lined up.
The Apostasy in the Church and the world's attitude toward Christians is getting worse by the day.
Then there is the USA,not mentioned in Scripture directly and no indication of a single nation power of our magnitude in the West during the endtime.But with the leadership this nation has now and it doesn't look like there is any change coming,we could decline as a world power very quickly.
It seems this is what our leaders want,with maybe a more powerful position for them in a new world order and the USA just another least significant nation.
I do believe they would sell out this nation as a world power to gain a higher position in a new world order.I believe they will do it through deception.We have leaders in this nation and other nations today that are masters of deception.Of course the news media is their greatest asset in accomplishing this deception.
As Christians we truly need the mind of Christ to be able to discern this deception and to not let it control our thinking and take our eyes off what our true purpose in this world is.
Yes one day and I believe soon this Church,this Bride,this Body,this Temple will be complete and we will go to meet our Savior.What in all eternity could be greater than that very first glimpse of His face.Oh what a moment that will be.
JUST MAYBE TODAY