This a subject rarely if ever taught or preached on save in the most fleeting way.
For it is presumed by many and assumed by many and taught by many that as soon as you are BORNagain you are automatically in the Bride of Christ .
This assertion is quite false and is due to jumping to conclusions rather than arriving at or "coming to a knowledge of the truth ".
Let it be understood that EVERY true BORN child of God born again by the water /Word and Spirit of God are CALLED to that "high calling " But it will be found that not all are willing to pay the price to be so.
But that is a negative and it is not my job or intention to point the finger but simply speak the truth and let it fall and sow and produce where it may .
I cannot nor do I think that what follows is an exhaustive rendition on the subject. But at the very least should give any spiritual man some food for thought and to consideration and provoke their own research on the matter and for any who are asleep to wake up to the hour in which we live and to the challenge of that calling.
Where does one start on such a subject? Not at the end Im thinking .But at the beginning .
and to the book of beginnings where the seed and root of all that follows and has its fulfilment and harvest in the last book will be found.
For I would warrant that every "sound doctrine " to be found in the Bible will have its seed and root in the first book and its development and revelation in all that follow .
So with them so then with this one as well.
So with Gods help and with careful thought let us go to the FIRST Adam.
Gen 2:20 There was not found a help meet for him.
Gen 2:21 and God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept ........
Now Jesus was called the "the last Adam." In that he was called the last Adam he was then likened unto the first .
But in reality it is the other way round . For the first Adam "who is a figure of that which was to come" Romans 5:14
"For the first was made a living soul the last a quickening Spirit " 1 Cor 15.45.
Somewhere in the scriptures he is also called the second Adam though I cannot at this moment find it .
you may now be asking what has this to do with the Bride of Christ ?
It has much to do with it .
For the first Adam was given a Bride or a help meet for him.
So also is the last Adam given a Bride .
and the first Adams bride came from where?
From the midst of his body . Not from the dust of the earth.
She was not the whole body of Adam but came from the midst of his body after a deep sleep.
The bride of Christ will not come from the world or the dust of the earth .But from the midst of his own body .
Not all his body but a body out of a body.
and bone of his bone and dare we say it ; having the same heart and mind as the groom.
The deep sleep of Adam echos the death of Christ .
The difference between the two is that as Paul warns the church today "to whom the ends of the world has come" and speak of his concerns that the church might be deceived as Eve was?
The Bride of Christ will not be deceived having learnt from the past not to lean upon her own understanding and perceptions but "to lean upon her beloved "
Solomon 6:10 and compare song of Solomon 8:5
Now a sound doctrine is neither proved or established by just one verse .Even if that verse clearly states it . No where in scripture does it encourage the use of 'proof texts'
But rather by the example of Paul in particular the use of Biblical argument ,The finest examples being the letter to the Hebrews and Romans funnily enough .
Jews and Gentiles.
So the above is but the start of an argument that needs must be substantiated by other scripture found in diverse ways and times where it is spoken of .
This by the grace of God I hope to do.
in Christ
gerald
For it is presumed by many and assumed by many and taught by many that as soon as you are BORNagain you are automatically in the Bride of Christ .
This assertion is quite false and is due to jumping to conclusions rather than arriving at or "coming to a knowledge of the truth ".
Let it be understood that EVERY true BORN child of God born again by the water /Word and Spirit of God are CALLED to that "high calling " But it will be found that not all are willing to pay the price to be so.
But that is a negative and it is not my job or intention to point the finger but simply speak the truth and let it fall and sow and produce where it may .
I cannot nor do I think that what follows is an exhaustive rendition on the subject. But at the very least should give any spiritual man some food for thought and to consideration and provoke their own research on the matter and for any who are asleep to wake up to the hour in which we live and to the challenge of that calling.
Where does one start on such a subject? Not at the end Im thinking .But at the beginning .
and to the book of beginnings where the seed and root of all that follows and has its fulfilment and harvest in the last book will be found.
For I would warrant that every "sound doctrine " to be found in the Bible will have its seed and root in the first book and its development and revelation in all that follow .
So with them so then with this one as well.
So with Gods help and with careful thought let us go to the FIRST Adam.
Gen 2:20 There was not found a help meet for him.
Gen 2:21 and God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept ........
Now Jesus was called the "the last Adam." In that he was called the last Adam he was then likened unto the first .
But in reality it is the other way round . For the first Adam "who is a figure of that which was to come" Romans 5:14
"For the first was made a living soul the last a quickening Spirit " 1 Cor 15.45.
Somewhere in the scriptures he is also called the second Adam though I cannot at this moment find it .
you may now be asking what has this to do with the Bride of Christ ?
It has much to do with it .
For the first Adam was given a Bride or a help meet for him.
So also is the last Adam given a Bride .
and the first Adams bride came from where?
From the midst of his body . Not from the dust of the earth.
She was not the whole body of Adam but came from the midst of his body after a deep sleep.
The bride of Christ will not come from the world or the dust of the earth .But from the midst of his own body .
Not all his body but a body out of a body.
and bone of his bone and dare we say it ; having the same heart and mind as the groom.
The deep sleep of Adam echos the death of Christ .
The difference between the two is that as Paul warns the church today "to whom the ends of the world has come" and speak of his concerns that the church might be deceived as Eve was?
The Bride of Christ will not be deceived having learnt from the past not to lean upon her own understanding and perceptions but "to lean upon her beloved "
Solomon 6:10 and compare song of Solomon 8:5
Now a sound doctrine is neither proved or established by just one verse .Even if that verse clearly states it . No where in scripture does it encourage the use of 'proof texts'
But rather by the example of Paul in particular the use of Biblical argument ,The finest examples being the letter to the Hebrews and Romans funnily enough .
Jews and Gentiles.
So the above is but the start of an argument that needs must be substantiated by other scripture found in diverse ways and times where it is spoken of .
This by the grace of God I hope to do.
in Christ
gerald
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