sermon: Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 9)
Becoming One Flesh
Martin G. Collins
Given 30-Oct-10; Sermon #1017; 69 minutes
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Martin Collins affirms that the marriage relationship and the family structure provide a workshop to learn the intricacies (sometimes translated as the mystery) of the God-plane relationship between Christ and the church. The mystery is inaccessible to the world, but fully accessible to God’s called-out ones. It is a mistake to carelessly cast off the significance of this “mystery,” claiming it too difficult to understand or, on the other hand, to trivialize it. We cannot dissect all the facets until the mystery is ‘drained out.’ The church constitutes the Bride of Christ, a being Christ loves as His own body. The church then is actually a part of Christ, as woman was taken out of man (Genesis 2:18-23). Jesus Christ is identified as the second Adam. We are taken out of Christ as Eve was taken out of Adam. Both husband and wife must learn the godly trait of love, yielding and adjusting to one another in temperament and belief, becoming glued together as with Superglue. As Adam was incomplete without Eve, so is Christ incomplete without His church. It is God’s intent that the church represent the fullness of Christ as does Eve to Adam. Physical marriage typifies this God-plane relationship which will play out in the marriage of the Lamb.
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Bone of my bones Cayenne pepper Colossians 1:19; 2:9, 19 Companion Confidantes Controlling temper Creation of Eve Daisy Eyebright Ephesians 1:15-23; 3:1-6; 4:13-16; 5:25-33 Eras of Elegance - Daisy Eyebright's Manual of Etiquette Family unit I Corinthians 2:6-16 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 First fruits Flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone Genesis 2:23 God is love Good temper Good wife Glue Helper Joined Last Adam Love Law of love Manual of Etiquette Marriage relationship Members of His Body Mind of Christ Mystery One flesh Relationship to Christ Romans 5:14-17 Second Adam Spiritual relationship between Christ and His Church Starved for love Taken out of man Void in our heart Woman You each, one by one
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