Continuing Pastor Tracy's timely message for us today:
Ephesians
5:31 is where Paul quotes Genesis 2:24, and I might say, quotes Jesus from
Matthew 19:5. In Ephesians 5:22-33
(Please read it.), God is instructing the church in Ephesus to understand that
the example, the picture, the image of a husband and wife living their lives in
Christ together in the earth is revealing, bearing, portraying, “unveiling” the
amazing picture of Christ and the church.
Again, Ephesians 5:31, quoted from Genesis 2:24 and Matthew 19:5 says,
“FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO
HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.”
Then, Ephesians 5:32 right after it says, “This mystery is great; but I
am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”
Image to come
In
Ephesians 5:22-33 is where we begin to understand “the end of the thing.” Ephesians 5:27 says, “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.” This is referring to the future, 2nd
coming, return of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 19:5-9 speaks of “the marriage supper of the Lamb.” Revelation 19:7 says, "Let us rejoice
and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come
and His bride has made herself ready."
Revelation 21:2 says, “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her
husband.”
All
these Bible verses in Revelation (the book about “the end of the thing”) and
Revelation 21:9-11 and 22:17 make reference to the great mystery found in
Ephesians 5:22-33 that “the example, the picture, the image of a husband and wife
living their lives in Christ together in the earth is revealing, bearing,
portraying, “unveiling” the amazing picture of Christ and the church.”
In Summary
1. Genesis 1:27:
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.”
2. Genesis 2:24:
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be
joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.”
3. Matthew 19:4,5: 4 And He answered and said, "Have you
not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,
5 and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE
JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?”
4. Ephesians 5:31,32: “FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS
FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE
FLESH. “This mystery is great; but I
am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”
A final word
of urged encouragement
Romans
12:1-2 (NASB) "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is
your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the
will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
“Image is everything!” – Pastor Tracy Hearnsberger
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