The Bride of Christ Joe Leach 8 th November 2015.

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The Bride of Christ Joe Leach 8 th November 2015

Is the Church a good thing? If so, why? The Bride of Christ

Jesus and the Church are inseparable Matthew 19v5-6: “‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” The Bride of Christ

Jesus and the Church are inseparable Is your life inseparable from Jesus? The Bride of Christ

Jesus and the Church are inseparable Jesus has chosen the Church to be his Bride The Bride of Christ Deut 7v6: “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.” Eph 1v4: ”Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.”

Jesus and the Church are inseparable Jesus has chosen the Church to be his Bride The Bride of Christ Isaiah 6v5: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips” Psalm 139v1-3: “O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.”

Jesus has chosen the Church to be his Bride We choose the Church The Bride of Christ

Well done! The Bride of Christ Keep going!

Jesus has chosen the Church to be his Bride How do we know he loves us? Rom 5v8 “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” The Bride of Christ

Jesus and the Church are inseparable Jesus has chosen the Church to be his Bride Jesus has paid a price to have his Bride The Bride of Christ

Jesus has paid a price to have his Bride The Church does… nothing! Jesus + nothing = relationship with God The Bride of Christ

Jesus has paid a price to have his Bride Eph 3v18-19 “Have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” The Bride of Christ

Jesus and the Church are inseparable Jesus has chosen the Church to be his Bride Jesus has paid a price to have his Bride Jesus wants his Bride involved in his mission The Bride of Christ Acts 1v8: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Is the Church a good thing? The Church is the only hope the world has! The Bride of Christ

Joe Leach 8 th November 2015