8-30-2015 weekly message

meditation of the week: Psalms 45:1-17

Main scripture: Genesis 2:18-25

Subject: The church of God, the body of Christ that is the bride of Christ

                 The LORD God appointed Adam as the king so that he may rule over all the creatures on the earth. All the names of the creatures were made as Adam called them. God wanted to make the spouse for Adam that may help him. God made his spouse not with the dust of the ground as he made Adam. The LORD God caused deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man, as if father brings forth his daughter to a man at a wedding. Adam spoke unto the woman, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”(Gen. 2:23)

After the LORD God finished the first marriage, and he said,

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”(Gen. 2:24)

               The LORD God had made a great plan of the church that shall be the bride of Christ as Adam and eve became one body. The LORD God had planned to make the bride of Christ that shall be able to help his only begotten Son when he shall full all in all. His plan had been set up even before the foundation of the earth. Apostle Paul testified of the church of God that shall be the bride of Christ:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”(Eph. 1:4-6)

              LORD God had known that the Satan shall bring forth sin and death through the serpent even before he sent his only begotten Son. This is the reason why God planned to send him twice to the earth. When his only begotten Son appeared the first time, he came as the last Adam(1Cor. 15:45). To bring forth his spouse, the LORD God had to kill him. AS he caused a deep sleep fall upon to Adam, and took one of his ribs to make woman, God became a man as the last Adam to fall a deep sleep for three days and three nights to take away the sin and death bearing all sins of the world that were brought forth by Adam. Apostle Paul testified of the relationship between Adam and Jesus:

 “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is

the Lord from heaven.

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”(1Cor. 15:42-50)

             As Abraham sent his eldest servant to the far country to find out the wife of Isaac that shall be his spouse(Gen. 24:1-67), the LORD God had to send his only begotten Son in the form of man for him to die bearing all sins of the world, and to be buried, and to rise again so that he may sit at the right hand of God. Afterwards, the LOD God sent the Holy Ghost in the name of his Son, Jesus to find out his bride. The LORD God wanted to bring forth into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ to separate from the world whomsoever believes in Lord Jesus Christ upon hearing the gospel through the Holy Ghost. And he made them the members in the church of God. As the LORD God made a woman with one of the ribs of Adam causing him to fall a deep sleep, he made his Son as the last Adam so that whosoever receive him as the Savior and husband believing his death and resurrection becomes the bride of Christ through receiving the quickening Spirit. This is the reason why the church of God is the body of Christ. As Adam said to the woman, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh”, our Lord Jesus Christ also is saying unto his church as Adam said to the woman.

                Apostle Paul testified of such a mysterious truth:

“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.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”(Eph. 2:29-33)

               Yeah! God made his church in the earth to bring forth the helping spouse for his Son through the death and burial and resurrection of him. God made his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of the church, and made all the members united with him to make them one body. To make them to be one body, God gave the Spirit of his Son that is the Holy Ghost, and let the spirit of the members sit together with him at the right hand of God. Apostle Paul testified of the spiritual mystery:

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”(Eph. 2:4-7)

             Therefore, a very important thing is going to happen: this is the day of Christ when the Lord Jesus Christ, the husband of the church appears in the air to call his church to take them home in heaven. Then, all the born again Christians shall meet the Lord in the air clothed with the spiritual body that is immortal and incorruptible body through resurrection or changing for them alive(1Thes. 4:16-18). They shall be rewarded according to their works as his helping spouse to be ready to be married with him in the wedding of the Lamb of God. Afterwards, they shall come down to the earth with him as his eternal bride. They shall help him to judge the world. They shall judge all the nations of people with him that not believed in him. They shall judge even the angels with him. Apostle Paul testified of this:

“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”(1Cor. 6:1-3)

           After the Lord Jesus Christ judge the world, he will establish his kingdom on the earth as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Even that time, his church shall help for him rule the world as his spouse as Eve helped Adam for him to rule the earth. Apostle Paul received the revelation of this, and testified:

“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.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”(Rom. 8:16-18)

                 Not only this, but the church of God, the bride of Christ shall participate in all his works forever more. Apostle Paul testified of such a great glory when he wrote unto the church Ephesians:

“And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”(Eph. 1:22,23)

             He testified of all things unto the saints in Colossian church:

 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the

beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be thing”(Col. 1:15-20)

             Until the day of Christ(the day of Rapture) when the Lord Jesus Christ lift his bride, the church of God to heaven, the body of Christ is not supposed to be lazy to help his works. God wants to save all men through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith in him. And he also wants to let them come unto the knowledge of the truth that is the Lord Jesus Christ.(1Tim. 2:4). Therefore, the children of God as well as the bride of Christ has to be not lazy to preach the gospel of grace of Christ; and they have to study the words of God with passion so that they may be able to know their husband more deeply; and so that they may be able to teach who he is. We are to be prepared to see the Lord gloriously deeply examining ourselves whether we are doing right things to help our Lord Jesus Christ as his bride. But first of all, we are to be prepared as a pure virgin through washing through the words of God that is the truth to be sanctified. Amen! Hallelujah!