Miami Gardens church of Christ

Christ is pictured as the husband and the church as His wife. Paul illustrates this with the relation of husband and wife on earth. The husband should “love his wife as Christ loved the church,” and the wife should submit to this loving husband “as unto the Lord.” The husband is “the head” of the family but must be willing to give himself for it. The husband rules the wife by love (Eph. 5:25, 33). The relation of the wife to the husband is like that of the church and Christ. The relation is a close tender relation in which there is no bondage but freedom because the service is that of the heart.

There is an interesting analogy between Adam and Eve and the church:

(1) Adam was created.

(2) Adam was put to sleep.

(3) Adam’s side was opened and the price, which was paid for his wife, was a rib was removed.

(4) Eve was created using that rib.

(5) Eve was given to Adam as a bride and she took his name.

(6) Children were born to them and so all people on earth have come from Adam and Eve.

Concerning Christ and the church:

(1) Christ came to the earth.

(2) He was put to sleep in death.

(3) His side was open and the price which He paid for His church came forth (Acts 20:28)

(4) The church was established and named for Christ (Roman 16:16)

(5) Children are born into the family of God and so all Christians on earth are equally related to Christ and His church.

Every Christian is a member of the church, the body of Christ. When God saves anyone, He adds him to the church (Acts 2:47). Christ did not add any one to a denomination, since there were no denominations in those days. Christians were added to the great heaven born, spirit-filled, blood-bought institution for which our Lord gave Himself and to which Christ gave Himself, and to which He adds each saved person.

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