Lesson 6 – The Consummation of the Church

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;

Corinthians 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

Matthew 25:21 His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.

1. All the members of the church are produced in the church age ¹, ², ³
2. The New Testament overcomers are also perfected in the church age
   1. The perfection of the New Testament overcomers in the church age ⁴
   2. The reward of the New Testament overcomers
      1. At the end of the church age ⁵, ⁶
      2. In the age of the millennium ⁷
3. The immature believers will be perfected in the age of the millennium through the Lord’s dispensational and governmental discipline ⁸
4. All the regenerated and perfected believers of the New Testament will be the components of the New Jerusalem, which is the church’s ultimate consummation ⁹, ¹⁰

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Bible References:

1. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; (Ephesians 2:8)
2. And they sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain and have purchased for God by Your blood men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, (Revelation 5:9)
3. And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, Which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1:22-23)
4. But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
5. And she brought forth a son, a man-child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. (Revelation 12:5)
6. These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. (Revelation 14:4)
7. His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master. (Matthew 25:21)
8. For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.” (Hebrews 12:6)
9. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Revelation 21:14)
10. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. (Revelation 21:2-3)