Where In The Bible Will I Find:

The Bride Of Christ?

Jesus died for His church (Eph. 5:25); "He loved the church and gave Himself for it that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that should be holy and without blemish" (Eph. 5:25-27). The church of our Lord Jesus Christ is the bride of Christ (Rev. 21:2, 9, 17), and that is a tremendous appeal for its purity.

Christ loved the church infinitely more than any man can love his bride, because His capacity to love is much greater. And he wants her to be holy and without blemish. The frills and trappings conceived by men fall so far short of the beauty and simplicity of the New Testament pattern, that they are cheap, much too cheap, to be dragged into it. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is resplendent by the effulgence of is own glory, and anything added by men only mars its beauty, darkens its light, and neutralizes its influence and its power to shed abroad the gospel of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

She must be kept holy and without blemish as the precious bride of Christ. And when this is done, she stands amidst the nations of the earth with a glory and a grandeur that transcends all the highest concepts of humankind. May God help everyone to be free from the shackles of denominationalism, and become a member of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His body! There is where God dwells among His people. It is the family of God, and God has no children outside His family. I must be in it, and you must be in it, if we want to be in that great company of the redeemed, who by the hands of ministering angels shall at last be ushered through the portals of glory into the presence of the Ancient of Days (Dan. 7:13, 22); there to behold the superior excellence of His glory and bask in the sunlight of His love throughout the ages of eternity. All spiritual blessings are in Christ (Eph. 1:3), to receive them, we must put on Christ (Gal. 3:27), and live a faithful Christian life (Rev. 2:10).