4-17-2016 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 45:1-17

Main scripture: Ephesians 5:21-33

Subject: Church of God, the helping spouse of Christ

          The Holy Ghost testifies of a very important spiritual mystery through Apostle Paul. The Holy Ghost speaks of the spiritual mystery through the physically visible things. When we understand the spiritual things invisible unto our eyes, we are to obey the words of God through understanding the things that cannot be understood by the thoughts of man.

        The main passage given today testifies of the relationship between husband and wife so that we may understand the spiritually mysterious relationship between Christ and the church of God.

         The thoughts of man could make various negative excuses of the reason why wife is not willing to submit herself unto her husband. Such kinds of excuses could be heard reasonable unto the thoughts of man. But as we know, when the wife of the first man not submitted unto her husband, an unimaginable miserable thing was to be happening. Though it might not to be considered as a catestrophy at that time, sin and death and curse were to be spreaded out unto all the earth, because they ate the fruit that was forbidden by God. In addition, their reigning power of all things that were created by God was stolen by the Devil, and even the earth had to be taken over unto the Devil.

       Husbands were commanded to love their wives giving themselves unto them. Adam had to die for a while to receive his wife from God. God wanted to give him a helping spouse. The scripture testifies of this:

“And LORD God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him….And the LORD caused a 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, and made he a woman, and brought heru nto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because  she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.”(Gen. 2:19,21-24)

          But unfortunately, a miserable thing happened unto the house made by God in the Garden of Eden, because the wife, Eve not submitted unto her husband, Adam. Because of not hearkening unto her husband saying not to eat the forbidden fruit not to die surely, all kinds of enormous miseries such as hatered and murders followed by broken homes have been continued to happen in the world for the last six thousand years of humans’ history.

         The LORD God made the woman as the helper for her husband, Adam. Eve, the woman only had to participate in the works of Adam, and help him doing best. She only had to do what she was supposed to obey to do, and not do whatever Dam ask not to do.

       Apostle Paul testified of the visible relationship between husband and wife as the same one between Christ and the church of God to testify the spiritually mysterious relationship between Christ and his church. God made the Lord Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son die for a while as Adam (three days) to take away the sin of the world so that he cleanse the believers by his blood to be baptized into his body. And he gathered together as one body making himself their head to be the church of God. As man and woman is to be one flesh through marriage, Christ made them that believe on him be one body unto him. Therefore, Apostle Paul testified of this mystery saying,

“For we are members of his body of his flesh, and of his bones.” He also testified of the church saying, “Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”(Eph. 1:23)

       Therefore, each member of the church has become his flesh and his bone. As Adam called Eve, saying, “She is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”, our Lord Jesus Christ is calling each member of his church as his bone and flesh.

           Therefore, the members of the church of God are to be one unity in the Holy Ghost as one body, and have to submit unto Christ as the husband, and help him. The Holy Ghost has given the gifts unto the members as he wants to give so that they may be able to help the ministry of Christ.

         Then, first of all, it is important for us to know the ministry of Christ. Christ is the One that is anointed by the Father God. He came to the world as a prophet to preach the truth. He was lifted up to heaven after he finished the salvation for us. Now he is interceding for us with his own blood in heaven as the High Priest. And when the time is fulfilled, he shall come as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords to eastablish his kingdom in the earth, and reign all the earth.

           Therefore, we, the members of his church are able to help him through praching the words of the truth of God unto all the earth sojourning in the world. When we work in one unity in the Holy Ghost with the gifts that we are given, the ministry of Christ is to be done. Apostle Paul testified of this unto the Ephesians:

“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye work worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. With all lowliness and meekness one another in love. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”(Eph. 4:1-3)

          The calling that was spoken by him is described as the vocation; as we have our own job in the world for living, there is the spiritual job even in the kingdom of God. The King james Version clarified the calling as the vocation. As we call the unemployed that has no job, even in the church of God there are the unemployed spiritually.

           The sceond ministry of Christ is as the High Priest to intercede for us; we have to preach the word of gospel of Christ that saves all men that believe on him sacrificing himself to do as the priests that solve the problem of sins. Apsotle Paul also testified of this ministry of Christ:

“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,, not imputing their trapasses unto them: and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”(2Cor. 5:18-20)

         Now sooner later, he shall come to judge the world to begin his final ministry. He shall come as the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and rule the whole world. The church of God shall help his ministry. Apostle Peter testified of the church of God:

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of the darkness into his marvelous light.”(1Pet. 2:9)

          Apostle Paul also testified of them that shall help the final ministry of Christ:

“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us…..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 sre not worthy to be compared the glory which shall be revealed in us.”(2Tim. 2:12, Rom. 8:17-18)

         Apostle John was lifted to heaven in the Spirit, and heard the voice of many angels round about the thrones and the beasts and the elders of the reigning of the saints with Christ:

“…..for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us  to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and toungue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.”(Rev. 5:9-10) Amen! Hallelujah!