The Church as a Bride

As a woman and a mother, the Church is also a Bride.  In the brightness of His glory in eternity, God has always been.  Then there came a point when God wanted to share His existence with a partner.  God wanted someone to talk to; to create and build things with; some one to be His eternal family.  The greater the family, the greater the love shared.  Jesus Christ is coming back to His bride. 

Revelation 19:6-8 KJV And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.  (7)  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.  (8)  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.  TRUE OVERCOMERS

Those who overcome will sit with Him on His throne as His eternal partner and bride.  Physical marriage was patterned after God’s divine model of the marriage of the Lamb, who is Christ our LORD.

Revelation 3:21 KJV To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

In any kingdom, there has to be subjects or citizens.  There can be only one king and one queen; the King and His bride.  Many are called into the Kingdom, but only a few are chosen; a special calling to the marriage supper of the Lamb; that is chosen to be part of the bride.

Revelation 19:9 KJV And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

Physical Marriage Prepares Us For Christ

Ephesians 5:23 KJV  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Ephesians 5:24 KJV Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Ephesians 5:25-27 KJV Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26)  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  (27)  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.

Colossians 1:16-18 KJV 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:  (17)  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  (18)  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.

We are here for Jesus Christ and we will be rewarded in His eternal Kingdom by what we do here on earth now in this short fleshly existence.

Revelation 22:12 KJV And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

The firstborn of the Kingdom is the church, the over comers who are the saints who will become the Bride of Christ.  Dr. Gerald Jeffers describes the Bride of Christ as being one body made up of millions of cells, just as our human bodies are made up of many cells.  Each of the saints, the true Christians who have overcome sin and the world in this life; each of them (us) will be just one cell in the body that is the Bride.  As a man and a woman become one flesh in marriage; Jesus Christ and His Bride will become one Spirit; at one with God Himself

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If you are called now to be an over comer; chosen to be a part of the Bride of Christ; don’t neglect so great a salvation and future.  If God has put it upon your heart to become like Him, to put on the mind of Christ, to become one with Christ; then take your calling seriously!  There is no greater purpose.  Invite Jesus Christ into your life; become the temple of God’s Holy Spirit; receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and continue to live in the Holy Ghost!