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Devoted to the Apostles' Teaching: A Building, A Body, A Bride

Explore how the Apostles portray the church as a building, a body, and a bride, each revealing a central truth about who we are.

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Devoted to the Apostles' Teaching: A Building, A Body, A Bride

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  1. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride Sunday, January 27, 2019

  2. Acts 2:42 [NASB] They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and  to prayer.

  3. Acts 2:46-47 [NASB] Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

  4. Sunday, February 24, 2019 “Breaking of Bread Nights” 5 – 8 PM Please sign up online or call the Office. You will be placed in a group near your home (we hope). Need more information? See Louise Sedgwick or Marcia Kuyper.

  5. Acts 2:42 [NASB] They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and  to prayer.

  6. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride Thesis: The Apostles depict the church as a building, a body, and a bride, each of which highlights a centraltruth regarding who and what we are.

  7. Ephesians 2:19-22 [NASB] “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.”

  8. Ephesians 3:4-6 [NASB] “By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel….”

  9. Ephesians 5:25-27 [NASB] “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.”

  10. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride I. We are Christ’s Building. (Matthew 16:15-19)

  11. Matthew 16:15-19 [NASB] “Simon Peter answered, ‘You are  the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. I also say to you that you are  Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.’”

  12. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Building. • Christ is the CornerStone. (I Peter 2:4-10)

  13. I Peter 2:4-5 [NASB] “And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,  you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

  14. I Peter 2:7 [NASB] “This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, / This became the very corner stone’…”

  15. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Building. • Christ is theCornerStone. • The Apostles and the Prophets are our foundation. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

  16. Ephesians 2:19-22 [NASB] “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.”

  17. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Building. • Christ is theCornerStone. • The Apostles and the Prophets are our foundation. • We are the very dwellingplace of God Himself!

  18. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Building. • We are Christ’s Body.

  19. I Corinthians 12:12-13 [NASB] “For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For  by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”

  20. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Body. • The Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ’s body.

  21. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Body. • The Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ’s body. • The church as onebody was previously hidden. (Ephesians 3:1-10)

  22. Ephesians 3:4-6 [NASB] “By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealedto His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel….”

  23. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Body. • The Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ’s body. • The church as onebody was previously hidden. • Though vastly diverse, we are one in Christ.

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  25. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are Christ’s Building. • We are Christ’s Body. • We are the Christ’s Bride. (Ephesians 5:22-33; Revelation 21)

  26. Ephesians 5:32 [NASB] “This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”

  27. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are the Christ’s Bride. • Christ is our Head and our Savior.

  28. Ephesians 5:23 [NASB] “For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.”

  29. Ephesians 5:25-27 [NASB] “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,thatHe might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.”

  30. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are the Christ’s Bride. • Christ is our Head and our Savior. • He loves us so much that He wants us to be glorious, holy, and blameless.

  31. Ephesians 5:25-27 [NASB] “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, thatHe might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.”

  32. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride • We are the Christ’s Bride. • Christ is our Head and our Savior. • He loves us so much that He wants us to be glorious, holy, and blameless. • There is a mingling of the metaphors into one glorious reality!

  33. Revelation 21:2-4 [NASB] “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will  dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them….’”

  34. Revelation 21:10-14 [NASB] “… the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God…withtwelve gates… and names were written on them … the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. … And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”

  35. Revelation 22:3-4 [NASB] “There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.”

  36. Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching:A Building, A Body, A Bride Thesis: The Apostles depict the church as a building, a body, and a bride, each of which highlights a centraltruth regarding who and what we are.

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