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Scriptures Referenced
- Ephesians 5:30-32 New King James Version (NKJV)30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
- Ephesians 5:25-27 New King James Version (NKJV)25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
- John 14:1-3 New King James Version (NKJV)14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.The list of Gifts of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 includes the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, healing, miraculous powers, prophecy, distinguishing between spirits, speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues. The list in 1 Corinthians12:28 includes healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2 New King James Version (NKJV)2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 New King James Version (NKJV)16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
- Revelation 19:7-9 New King James Version (NKJV)7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.”8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.9 Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today is the 30th of June. Power of Christ. Daily mercies are new every morning.
00:10 For those who love God. Let’s love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. Today I’m led to speak on Christ, the husband of the church, and we, the church, the bride.
00:23 Now, this is a mystery. In fact, Apostle Paul In Ephesians 5, 30, 32, he says, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, he says,
but I’m speaking regarding Christ and the church.
00:43 He says that Christ and the church is the same thing as a marriage. And it’s a great mystery. So there is a parallel.
00:51 The Israelites marriage or the Jew marriage and the marriage of the Lamb, that is Jesus Christ to his church. There’s a parallel. Let’s go through some points quickly and you will see.
01:04 It’s amazing. It’s amazing. One, A Jew or an Israelite decides who he wants to marry.
01:11 And the wife, of course, has to. The future wife, of course, has to agree. There is a need for agreement there, you know, it’s not just forced marriage.
01:19 The bridegroom goes and pays a dowry for the future wife. Pays a dowry. Pays a dowry to the father.
01:30 To the father of the wife. For the future wife to take her, to betroth her to be betrothed to her, or she to be betrothed to him. He pays a dowry in Jesus case he gave himself up for her.
01:44 The church in Ephesians 5, Ephesians 5, 25, 27. He gave Himself up. The dowry that Jesus paid to buy us.
01:52 Buy me. Buy my soul was his own life. He gave his life to buy me.
01:56 He gave his life to buy you. He gave his life. He died on the cross.
02:02 And his blood. His blood was a sacrifice. His sacrifice on the cross.
02:07 His death. He gave himself. He died to buy me.
02:11 Prime me. From what? From captivity of sin and Satan. I was a captive.
02:16 So he gave himself. He died as a dowry, as a payment. So I am set free from bondages of sin and from captivity of the devil.
02:21 So I am now free to cast out even the evil spirits. I am free because he died and paid a price for me. That is the dowry.
02:35 Then what happens next? He sits. The future bridegroom and the bride sit together and have a dinner, a supper. And in that supper he shares the meal.
02:47 This is the real natural Jew marriage or the Israelite marriage. He shares a meal and shares a cup with her they drink from the same cup. And this is the last supper.
03:00 Jesus did. He shared the same cup with his disciples. He passed the cup around.
03:04 He shared a meal. The last supper. Then following that, he will say, I have to go.
03:10 I have to go to my father’s home. My father’s house has many mansions, John 14 many mansions. And I go there to prepare a place for you.
03:19 I go there to prepare a place for you. And I prepare a place for you. And this is why Jesus said same thing.
03:29 The man, the natural man was, will say to the future bride, I go back. And that’s the procedure. That is the custom.
03:37 He goes back and makes a nice home for this future wife. And the entire marriage, the engagement by good as married engagement is about a year. And he goes to place and there is his father.
03:55 The man’s father has to decide whether the home his son has built for his son for his daughter in law. His son is built for his daughter in law. He is of good quality.
04:05 Is it acceptable so that he is not put to shame. He wants to present a good home, so he has to approve. So when he and the father of the groom approved.
04:14 Yes, son, this is good home. Now go and get your bride. This is.
04:18 This is why Jesus also said, my father only knows the day I’m coming back. The second coming. He said, only the Father knows when I come back.
04:26 Why Father? God has to approve. See the parallel, brothers and sisters. There’s a parallel.
04:31 Now. Before he leaves, before the bridegroom leaves, he gives gifts to this woman whom he has betrothed. He gives rings, so she wears a ring.
04:42 She gives money, jewelry and presents for her to remember him. Because it will be a year or so for her to remember him. So whenever she’s got problems and doubts, she’ll begin to look at the gifts.
04:58 She’ll begin to look at the gifts and the present and remember the bridegroom is coming back for her. She will not mix with the world. The local boys and the young men all will disturb her.
05:08 And she will not be with them anymore. She will wear a veil. A veil and a ring to show that she’s betrothed to another.
05:16 Likewise we, the church, the soul. I am betrothed to another. I belong to another.
05:24 My soul belongs to another. So I must. My conduct must be as a chaste virgin.
05:30 That’s why the Bible says, must present our souls as a chaste virgin to Christ. He will present it. He will do.
05:36 But we must ask him. We must want it. We must be willing.
05:39 We still Have a will, free will. So we ask Lord Jesus, in the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, present my soul as a chaste virgin to Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, make my soul as a chaste virgin to Jesus Christ.
05:52 Because our blood has been cleansed by his blood, our soul has become spotless because of his blood. And now we should not be doing what the world does. What the world does.
06:04 And what are the gifts Jesus Christ gave us? Gifts of the Holy Spirit. See the parallel, brothers and sisters, Gifts of the Holy Spirit. There the natural man gives gifts to the future wife, the betrothed one.
06:15 And here he gives us gifts of the Holy Spirit. Word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith healing, miraculous powers, casting out evil spirits, presentation of tongues, interpretation of tongues, speaking in tongues.
So many.
06:27 So many gifts. This is in First Corinthians 12. So many gifts and ministry of help.
06:27 So many gifts. We can use, and we begin to use, because we are waiting for the husband of our soul to come back. And then this natural husband, the Jew, the Israelite husband, will come.
06:47 Come with a lot of noise because they suddenly may reach there at night, because they’re living far away and there’s no way to communicate. There were no cell phones and all this, so they were to come there and make
a big noise. And that is why the future wife, the bride, always lights a lamp.
07:05 The lamp, and keeps it there. So when they come the night, there are no street lamps and all they see that lamp lit. Then the husband, future husband, knows this is my bride’s home.
07:16 He goes and collects the bride. And the bride is ready with the bag all packed up, expecting him to come back any day, because she herself does not know when he’ll be ready, because the father of the husband has to
decide. So she’s ready every day.
07:31 She’s chaste. Every day. She’s holy.
07:31 Every day. She’s looking at Jesus Christ. She’s thinking of Jesus Christ.
07:36 We think of Jesus Christ. She is thinking of her future husband. She is thinking of him daily.
07:40 When the boys are disturbing her, she will just humble herself. She will move away. She will not take part in all this revelry, all this rubbish that goes on the world.
07:48 She won’t go. She won’t be loitering with the boys in the village anymore. She’s betrothed.
07:54 She belongs to another. We must belong to another. We belong to Jesus Christ.
07:58 We must know. The world must know. We belong to another.
08:01 Therefore. Therefore, 2 Corinthians 11 says, the Holy Spirit yearns for us and guards us jealously. Jealously now we want the Holy Spirit to present as church virgin Christ.
08:17 Of course we are unable to do. But we must be willing when willing, Holy Spirit does for us. In the name of Jesus Christ.
08:23 And now what happens? In 1st Thessalonians 4, the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout. Just like that. You know the man, the betrothed husband.
08:35 Coming nighttime, he reaches. Maybe his entourage will make such a noise and the village will know he has come for his bride. Likewise, there will be a big shout.
08:44 You see the parallel here with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. And then we who are alive and remain shall caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
08:49 And then we shall be always with Him. Then, of course, in Revelation 19, it talks about the feast. The feast, marriage, supper of the Lamb.
09:09 Now there too, in Revelation 19, 8 says it was granted to her to be fine array, fine linen, clean clothes. Fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints, the revelation says. Now quickly we see this.
09:24 We see this quickly. What’s happened? Now we are betrothed. He has given us gifts.
09:30 We look at the gifts. We use the gifts. We are waiting for him to come back eagerly.
09:34 He is coming back for a bride that is without blemish. And eagerly waiting for him. The Bible says those only he is coming back for those who are eagerly waiting for him.
09:42 Let us eagerly wait for our husband of our soul. Husband of our soul, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now, what is the church? The church that is the bride of Christ.
09:52 What is the church? The church is each of us who are betrothed to Christ. One here, one there, one in that country, one in another country. It’s not the denominations you are belonging to.
10:00 It’s not the group you are worshipping with. It is each soul. There may be a denomination.
10:06 There may be only a few souls which are really betrothed to Christ, who want to be with Christ, who are in Christ, who are. Who are eagerly waiting for Him. Others.
10:17 The Bible says there are also false Christians. There are false brethren. There are also others.
10:22 False. We won’t know, so we don’t. We love all.
10:23 We love all. All. All.
10:23 We love all. Jesus Christ commanded us to love all. Even those who are doing things wrongly to us.
10:31 We must love because we belong to another. We belong to God. And God is love.
10:37 And we will love all. But at the same time, remember, brothers and sisters, each of us, here and there, everywhere, belonging to Jesus Christ. Flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.
10:48 That’s the Church. The body of Christ. When we attach ourselves, we want to attach.
10:53 We ask Holy Spirit, attach me. Make me part flesh of flesh and bone of his bones. Make me Holy Spirit.
11:01 I want to. I’m surrendered all. I don’t want my will anymore.
11:04 I want his will. I want his will. I want his will in Jesus Christ.
11:09 Lord. Mercy, Lord. Mercy, Lord.
11:11 Lord, we wait for you eagerly. And you will come. You will come the second Coming.
11:14 You will come for us and you will take us home. As soon as your Father approves, you will come. The Holy Spirit.
11:23 The gifts. We will use the gifts. Our conduct will be chaste, pure, holy, kind, loving.
11:30 In Jesus name. Brothers and sisters, you can read this more. Get the emails.
11:35 You can read this more. Those of you can’t subscribe by email, I think you should be getting regularly. You can tell to others this is the bride and the bridegroom.
11:45 It’s a mystery, but it’s a parallel to the Israelite marriage itself. In Jesus name. It’s a wonderful topic.
11:53 You make your own research, brothers and sisters. It will encourage you. It will build faith in you that your Jesus Christ, the husband of your soul, is surely coming back for you.
12:03 Amen.
