The True Church
Summary:
The true church, composed of the whole number of regenerate persons from Pentecost to the first resurrection united together and to Christ by the baptism with the Holy Spirit is the body of Christ of which He is the Head. As such, it is a holy temple for the habitation of God through the Spirit is "one flesh" with Christ and espoused to Him as a chaste virgin to one husband. [Scofield]
O' Lord God, thank you for Your Christ. O' Lord Jesus, thank-you for being willing to suffer so much to release us from our death sentence, passing us through the cross to the eternal salvation on the other side. O' Holy Spirit, we thirst to know HIS word, we hunger to know HIM more. The more we know, the more we know we don't know; help us Lord to fill this void, Amen.
Let us now take Brother Scofield's marvelous summary of the True Church and further amplify its contents through the validating truth of scripture--
--The true church, composed of the whole number of regenerate persons from Pentecost to the first resurrection...
(1Co 15:52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
...united together and to Christ by the baptism with the Holy Spirit...
(1Co 12:12-13) For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
...is the body of Christ of which He is the Head.
(Eph 1:22-23) And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
As such, it is a holy temple for the habitation of God through the Spirit...
(Eph 2:21-22) in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
...is "one flesh" with Christ...
(Eph 5:30-31) because we are members of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
...and espoused to Him as a chaste virgin to one husband.
(2Co 11:2-4) For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.
Simplicity, purity, truth. Thus my dear friends is the summary of The True Church.
HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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