Lesson 3 – The Status of the Church (2) (Outline)

Lesson 3 – The Status of the Church (2)

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand in order that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:15 Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,

Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

  1. God’s masterpiece 1
  2. The new man
    1. Created by Christ on the cross (2)2
    2. Bearing God’s image to express Him (3) (4) (5)3, 4, 5
  3. The counterpart of Christ
    1. The church as the bride, the wife, of Christ as the Bridegroom, the Husband (6) (7)6, 7
    2. To be married at Christ’s coming back (8)8
  4. The golden lampstands 9, 10
    1. Shining in the dark age as in the night, bearing the testimony of Jesus
    2. To be consummated in the New Jerusalem (11) (12)11, 12

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Bible References:

  1. For we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand in order that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
  2. Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace, (Ephesians 2:15)
  3. That you put off, as regards your former manner of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to the lusts of the deceit, And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality. (Ephesians 4:22-24)
  4. And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all. (Colossians 3:10-11)
  5. And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
  6. Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word, That He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:25-27
  7. And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman and brought her to the man. And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called Woman Because out of Man this one was taken. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:21-24)
  8. Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. (Revelation 19:7)
  9. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. (Revelation 1:20)
  10. And out of the throne come forth lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; (Revelation 4:5)
  11. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. (Revelation 21:23)
  12. And night will be no more; and they have no need of the light of a lamp and of the light of the sun, for the Lord God will shine upon them; and they will reign forever and ever. (Revelation 22:5)