Chapter 8
Jesus’ One Congregation, Church, Body, And Wife!
Some may ask, “If we do not allow denominations to interpret what we are to believe, what will we have FAITH in? We will have faith in, and believe in the Trinity and the ONE GOSPEL or Word, who is Jesus Christ (see John 1:1; Rev 19:13). In order to do this, we MUST READ HIM and hear HIM.
When I began this study, God said to me, “Prove that My Body and My Wife are one, just as My Word teaches all Husbands and Wives should be.”
(Romans 7:4)
“Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the [external] law THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST, so THAT YOU MAY BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER—TO HIM WHO WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE SHOULD BEAR [Spiritual] FRUIT TO GOD.”
(Isaiah 54:5)
For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is His name…
(2 Corinthians 11:2)
For I [Paul] am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband [Christ], that I may present you as a chaste [Spiritual] virgin to Christ.
(Hosea 2:19-20)
“I [God Almighty] will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall [intimately] know the Lord…
(Hosea 2:14-16)
‘Therefore, behold, I will allure her [God’s Wife], will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. “And it shall be, in that day,” says the LORD,
“That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Master…’
(Isaiah 62:3-5)
You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called Hephzibah [my delight is in her], and your land Beulah [married; espoused]; for the LORD delights in you, And your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
(Ephesians 5:22-33)
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, as also CHRIST IS HEAD OF THE CHURCH [this word can also be translated “Congregation”]; and HE IS THE SAVIOR OF THE/HIS BODY. Therefore, just as THE CONGREGATION/CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO CHRIST, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, JUST AS CHRIST LOVED [HIS] CONGREGATION/CHURCH and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word/Gospel/Truth, that HE MIGHT PRESENT HER TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CONGREGATION/CHURCH, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies [just as Jesus loves His own Wife, Church, and Body (all members)]; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, JUST AS THE LORD DOES HIS/THE CHURCH/CONGREGATION. For WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY, of HIS FLESH AND OF HIS BONES. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and HIS ONE CONGREGATION/church…
The question is: Do we, men and women believers, respect our Husband [to be], Jesus Christ; do we love Him and the other members in His Body as much, or more than we do ourselves?
Ephesians 5:22-23, above, tells us that we are now one flesh with Christ, though this has not yet manifested in earth for us. Just as Jesus has claimed and given us everything that He died for, we have not seen many things manifest as yet. This is one of them. Jesus was given authority over our flesh just before He was crucified and resurrected; therefore, the conquering of our flesh was included in the completed package that Christ purchased for us. For the latest Word from God regarding this, be sure and read: “Christ’s SECOND COMING and FULL REDEMPTION Are Upon Us NOW!” (Part 1) and The Final Step In Your Redemption Will NOW Be Given To My Remnant” (Part 2)
(John 17:1-5)
Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY OVER ALL FLESH, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. NKJV
[Also see Acts 2:17; 1 Corinthians12:3]
You are not only Christ’s Wife, you are also destined to literally become one holy, incorruptible flesh with Him, because He will be/is your Husband. Now as we die, our spirits rise into heaven and our flesh stays on earth. In time, you will become totally submerged within Christ:
(1 Corinthians 15:50-54)
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed — in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Through Jesus’ Salvation and Spiritual love within us we desire and seek to be His image, which is the Spiritual image and nature of God our Father. This causes the natural transformation of our views, opinions, and judgments: OUR VERY ACTIONS. Not only do we see and experience God’s presence in our lives, but we MUST begin to experience the Holy Spirit’s presence and flow from within us.
Originally, in the garden in Eden, mankind lost the ability to discern between the knowledge of Good and Evil (see Ch.1 of this Study Series). Through the Holy Spirit we are able to discern between good and evil again. He gives us the ability to make choices pleasing to Him, who is righteous. It is through His loving, giving INTERNAL nature and character that we are free from EXTERNAL man-made religions, bigotry, dogmas, and traditions: wicked, evil hearts. By His nature, and through our fellowship and communion with Him AND EACH OTHER, we are changed into the ONE who gives all of Himself to all of His Children.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SICK WITHIN CHRIST’S ONE BODY?
(Isa 6:9-10)
And He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ “Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; LEST THEY SEE WITH THEIR [spiritual] EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR [spiritual] ears, and UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND RETURN AND BE HEALED.”
COMMUNION
[EXCERPT]
Below, Paul teaches why the Lord’s Supper is so very important to all of us:
(1 Corinthians 11:17 thru 12:1)
Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better BUT FOR THE WORSE. For first of all, when you come together as a Congregation/Church, I hear that THERE ARE DIVISIONS [evil in God’s eyes] AMONG YOU, and in part I believe it. For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you. Therefore when you come TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper [take communion]. For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the Congregation/church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; THIS IS MY BODY which is broken for you [so that each individual may take their part of the whole/Christ’s One Body along with the other members]; do this in remembrance of Me [in this way My Body is completed as One].” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the NEW COVENANT in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
Examine Yourself
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup OF THE LORD in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. But LET A MAN EXAMINE HIMSELF, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not DISCERNING [seeing, acknowledging] THE LORD’S [ONE] BODY. FOR THIS REASON MANY ARE WEAK AND SICK AMONG YOU, AND MANY SLEEP [DIE]. For IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES [with regards to the Lord’s One Body], we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that WE MAY NOT BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD. Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another [as one Body would]. But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, OR YOU WILL COME TOGETHER FOR JUDGEMENT. And the rest I will set in order when I come.”
Jesus was teaching us that taking Communion serves a very real purpose. He says, “This cup is the NEW COVENANT in My blood.” In other words, “I sacrificed Myself, My Body: My Flesh and Blood for you and every other person who will receive My sacrifice in their behalf. I did this so that they can enter into My Father’s New Covenant with Me.”
Therefore, if one does not take and drink His blood, they do not enter into God’s New MARRIAGE Covenant: the covenant through which Jesus shares all things with all of His Body members (Heb 9:18-20).
Above, we are told that we are to “examine or judge ourselves.” This does not mean that we are to judge ourselves for everything we can think of at that moment. It means that we are to judge ourselves with regards to Jesus’ ONE BODY. We know this because this is the topic of this entire scripture.
One of the main reasons we are weak, sick and dying is because we are not acknowledging His one Body; we are not seeing and loving our sisters and brothers, our eternal family. We are not treating each member within Christ’s One Body as if he or she is Jesus Christ Himself. These members are just that. As a member within Christ’s One Body we are to stand in unity and love with each other.
Many of God’s people are weak, or sickly and dying because we are not discerning Christ’s ONE Body correctly as we take Communion (if we are taking it).
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25)
“… the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed TOOK BREAD; and when He had given thanks, HE BROKE IT AND SAID, “TAKE EAT; THIS IS MY [One] BODY WHICH IS BROKEN [in pieces] FOR YOU; do this in remembrance of Me.” NKJV
Above, we read that Jesus’ broke His Body for our sake, so that each person can be one part or member of the whole: Jesus Himself. When we fail to recognize Jesus’ one Body, we fail to recognize Jesus; we also fail to recognize our own membership in His Eternal Congregation, Body, Church, and Wife.
Why is this? 1 Corinthians 10:17 teaches us: “FOR WE, though many, ARE ONE BREAD AND ONE BODY [Jesus Christ]; for we all partake of that one bread [Jesus Christ]; and therefore, all members in Him!
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WHAT IS IN CHRIST’S BLOOD THAT MAKES IT SO SPECIAL?
I began to hear Jesus in 1988, and He told me to take Communion daily approximately a year later. In either 2017 or 2018, Jesus taught me that I am to pray the following as I take Communion. It consists of two well known scriptures:
(Heb 12:22-24)
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that SPEAKS better things than that of Abel.
(John 6:63)
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU ARE SPIRIT, AND THEY ARE LIFE.
I, most often pray the following when taking Communion: I first thank Jesus and God our Father for Communion. I then pray both John 6:63, “Jesus’ blood speaks better things than Abel’s.” I combine that with Hebrews 12:22-24: “the Word that I [Jesus] speak to you is Spirit and it is [eternal] Life.”
Putting these two verses together, we know that as we drink Jesus’ blood/wine/grape juice during Communion, we are drinking the blood that speaks the Word OF God, which is the Spirit, and Eternal Life into our SPIRITUAL bodies. Christ’s blood is loaded with the Holy Spirit!
(Mark 14:22-25)
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, “This is My blood OF THE NEW COVENANT, which is shed for many. Assuredly, I SAY TO YOU, I WILL NO LONGER DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN I DRINK IT NEW IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”
Why did Jesus say, “I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God?” When I was taking Communion one day, our Father told me to take it with Him in honor of Jesus and all that He has done for both our Father and His Children. Jesus is the great intercessor between mankind and God. Without Him none of us would be included in God’s eternal presence and family.
[EXCERPT]
I wrote the following in, “Revealed: “Why Is The Wedding Communion So VERY Important To YOU Throughout ETERNITY?”
“God our Father said that: ‘This wedding ceremony and COVENANT will be DELIVERED and CONFIRMED [made certain as to truth] by Me [God] as I sit on My throne in the heavenly Holy of Holies (see Gal 3:15-18). This ONE FLESH, Christ’s ONE RESURRECTED FLESH destroys all sin and death forever…”
Though Jesus manifested God’s promised NEW COVENANT with mankind upon His own resurrection, God has promised to COMPLETE, FINALIZE, and CONFIRM it upon Christ’s Wedding to His Spiritual Wife, Church, and ONE Eternal Congregation. If God had previously completed, or finalized His NEW Covenant, many would have already seen and known the last days (and God’s promised New Eternal Beginning) (also see Rev 21:1-6)…
God told me: “as you take Communion on earth today, you participate in God’s wedding REHEARSALS for your own heavenly WEDDING. You do so in preparation and recognition of your upcoming Wedding Day, the day in which God’s/My final Covenant with mankind will be confirmed [made certain truth] and consummated [completed, perfected] within each and all Believers through Christ and God’s [My] Holy Spirit.”
During this Wedding Ceremony we all (including God our Father) will lift our glasses together in REMEMBRANCE, MEMORY, and THANKS TO JESUS for His sacrifice, and the new Eternal Marriage Covenant between God and His people that Christ’s sacrifice purchased for us. In other words, we will, as we should now while we are on earth, remember, honor, and thank Jesus for everything that He has done for us. We will do this while taking Communion/Eucharist with God our Father and all members in Christ: His One Body, His Wife, and His final Congregation or Church. In doing so, we REMEMBER and BRING TO MEMORY Jesus, His sacrifice, and God’s promise to bring His once fallen Children back into His PRESENCE and FACE…”
Heal As You Pray and Confess Your Sins:
(James 5:14-16)
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of [Christ’s one Church and Body], and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. (1)CONFESS YOUR TRESPASSES TO ONE ANOTHER, and PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER, THAT YOU MAY BE HEALED. The (2)effective, (3)fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. NKJV
(1) “CONFESS YOUR TRESPASSES TO ONE ANOTHER“: Want to end gossip? Nothing works as quickly or effectively as their having to confess their own trespasses [sins] to one another.
(2) “effective”: “producing the effect desired or intended. That is having the ADEQUATE POWER OR FORCE to produce an effect, or outcome to achieve results.
(3) “fervent”: FIERY enthusiasm or energetic” according to (Acts 18:25; zealous).”
Because Christ lives in each member within His Body, we MUST walk in His nature, mind, love, and heart. If we are truly within Him, and we have asked, and allowed Him to live within us through His Holy Spirit, it is impossible for us to be, and stay in our old nature (any nature other than Christ’s).
True Communion brings us into one accord with Christ’s mind, nature, and love along with the other members in His Body.
JUDGEMENT OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS
If there is no transformation and correction within the believer, Christ’s sacrifice has not become their reality, and they continue to exist in their own “self” righteousness as opposed to Christ’s righteousness. These “judge” their brothers and sisters within Christ’s one Body; and thus they “fail to discern [see] that it is the Lord’s Body” that they are judging and criticizing.
Matthew 7:1-2 teaches us that God has put a spiritual law into effect; however, we are the ones that activate this law with our minds and hearts:
“DO NOT JUDGE, OR YOU TOO WILL BE JUDGED. FOR IN THE SAME WAY YOU JUDGE OTHERS, YOU WILL BE JUDGED; AND THE MEASURE YOU USE, IT WILL BE MEASURED TO YOU. NIV
As I said before, within God’s HOLY Spirit we all, including God and Christ, (2)share this ONE heart with all of our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is the testimony of Christ in us. Even the angels of God carry this SPIRITUAL heart, and thus Christ’s Testimony within themselves (Rev 19:9-10). Remember, Christ was [and still is] this “unconditional, non-judgmental love” (see John 12:47).
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