THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

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"The holy city, the new Jerusalem is described as being the bride, the lamb's wife; this is the bride of Christ, not the church, the body of Christ."

Man....this is flat out bizarre, where your doctrine is taking you.
Really??????
Now that Pauline doctrine has to muddy up who the bride is?????
Thats what Revelation 21 says
 

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Yes they all did
Paul preached Christ from the law and the prophets BUT als the mystery revealed to him by Christ

[Rom 16:25-26 KJV] 25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, 26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
They all had the same Holy Spirit.
It was not a separate Holy Spirit guiding Paul.

Oneness in spirit and truth.
In your doctrine, you have God setting a trap.
God is supposedly guiding some through Paul and others through, what you think, as, defective teachers. (Peter, James, John, and Jesus)

Hyper Pauline doctrine is diabolical.
 

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Mid acts with Paul
well aint that untrue .
peter , james , jude
and all of them and all they preached too
THEY THE SAME BODY . believing , speaking , and teaching the same IDENTICAL gospel
to both the jew and gentile .
Paul was but ADDED INTO that BODY on the road to damascus
Man people get so easily tripped up on mens doctrines .
 
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Mid acts with Paul

The Body of Christ actually started when the old covenant ended.

Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John the baptist:
Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.


The New Covenant is the house of Jesus, He is the High Priest over the New Covenant which get started in earnest with the arrival of John the baptist who was the the forerunner of Jesus

Hebrews 3:5,6
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house are we, IF we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.


Now, there is a new house, the Body of Jesus Christ! Under the New Covenant that the Lord said would come forth, we see Jesus Christ as the High Priest. The old covenant with it’s laws and regulations have been taken away because thru Jesus Christ a new and better covenant has come in to place.

Hebrews 10:9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

(God said He would make a New Covenant - see Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Hebrews 8:6
But now hath Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.


And with the changing of the priesthood, God’s Word tells us there is also a change of the law.

Hebrews 7:12
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.





Yes it is my friend . But as you well know its not just people ,
ITS PEOPLE of all tribes WHO , who what , BELIEVE IN JESUS THE CHRIST
and those sheep , that body , they BELIEVE HIS WORDS and will not follow a strangers jesus .

And sadly some who start of getting born again becoming member of the Body of Christ end up falling away departing from the faith and quit abiding in Christ.
 

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The Body of Christ actually started when the old covenant ended.

Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John the baptist:
Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.


The New Covenant is the house of Jesus, He is the High Priest over the New Covenant which get started in earnest with the arrival of John the baptist who was the the forerunner of Jesus

Hebrews 3:5,6
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house are we, IF we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.


Now, there is a new house, the Body of Jesus Christ! Under the New Covenant that the Lord said would come forth, we see Jesus Christ as the High Priest. The old covenant with it’s laws and regulations have been taken away because thru Jesus Christ a new and better covenant has come in to place.

Hebrews 10:9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

(God said He would make a New Covenant - see Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Hebrews 8:6
But now hath Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.


And with the changing of the priesthood, God’s Word tells us there is also a change of the law.

Hebrews 7:12
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.







And sadly some who start of getting born again becoming member of the Body of Christ end up falling away departing from the faith and quit abiding in Christ.
And sadly indeed for them this is my friend .
And why DO you suppose that is my friend .
First off many came to another jesus in the first place . new age jesus or prosperity jesus
or as of late Rainbow inclusive koran kissing jesus , WHICH DARN SURE IS OF ANTI CHRIST ALL THE WAY .
What if i told The jesus so many within CHRISTENDOM beleive to be JESUS , is really satan in wool .
CAUSE sadly IT IS Just that .
 
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If ya jesus
if ya love
contradicts TRUTH . BY golly IT AINT OF GOD at all .
And i sure hope we understand that GOD cannot lie
THUS HIS WORDS BE TRUTH .
any love that sure tries to make a way around them words , BE OF THE WORLD claoked in wool
taught of satan and his fellows to do nothing BUT DECIEVE .
But it will only deceive those who , WHO LOVE A LIE .
JESUS has the sheep , THEIR HEARTS sure aint in love with a lie , BUT TRUTH .
May i suggest two words to us all again .
BIBLE TIME .
IF ya love , ya jesus , you yourself , has a problem WITH SUCH WORDS
THEN know and understand we gots us a deception going on in the house .
 
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They all had the same Holy Spirit.
It was not a separate Holy Spirit guiding Paul.

Oneness in spirit and truth.
In your doctrine, you have God setting a trap.
God is supposedly guiding some through Paul and others through, what you think, as, defective teachers. (Peter, James, John, and Jesus)

Hyper Pauline doctrine is diabolical.
hyper pauline . did you just type hyper pauline .
Allow me some words of truth and of comfort .
PUAL HIMSELF would have rebuked any creature WHO even preached this stuff .
AS THOUGH HE had a special other gospel for the gentiles .
AS YOU WELL KNOW THIS my friend . Doug is and has been deceived .
AS IF paul and peter were doctrinally at odds at all and preached different gospels .
This dear fellow has no idea what has occurred at all .
So lets just sum it up for him real easy and so simple .
THERE BE ONLY ONE GOSPEL , ONE SPIRIT , ONE BODY , ONE BRIDE thus WIFE
Of GOD of the LAMB .
it just happens , however to consist of EVERY BELIEVING JEW and GENTILE .
pretty clear and simple to me .
 

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And many come to the real Jesus and fall away too.
Some do recieve the faith with joy
but as JESUS said they do not endure .
So that do occur as well .
BUT ONE THING I DO KNOW
is
GOD KNOWS WHO ARE HIS , And they can no man pluck from HIS HAND
and they are full of the words of the LORD and all warnings , all things written
THEY will believe and use for the good of the church .
FOR IT IS CHRIST who worketh in them and through them to keep the church safe
and from falling .
Too many been following an acroynm
Too many been following a word twister
too many been following the wrong god , wrong christ , the wrong stuff .
Sheep feast on TRUTH
And Every lovely GOD INSPIRED WORD IS TRUTH . Bible time in the building my friends .
 
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Some do recieve the faith with joy
but as JESUS said they do not endure .
So that do occur as well .
BUT ONE THING I DO KNOW
is
GOD KNOWS WHO ARE HIS , And they can no man pluck from HIS HAND
and they are full of the words of the LORD and all warnings , all things written
THEY will believe and use for the good of the church .
FOR IT IS CHRIST who worketh in them and through them to keep the church safe
and from falling .
Too many been following an acroynm
Too many been following a word twister
too many been following the wrong god , wrong christ , the wrong stuff .
Sheep feast on TRUTH
And Every lovely GOD INSPIRED WORD IS TRUTH . Bible time in the building my friends .
@amigo de christo
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The Body of Christ actually started when the old covenant ended.

Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John the baptist:
Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
That verse is not saying the old covenant ended with John
What ended was the law and prophets speaking about the kingdom at hand..................[Mat 11:13 KJV] 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Jesus didnt end the old covenant either........[Mat 5:17 KJV] 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
 

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Yes, they would not be made complete without us, ie, complete in Christ, like we are. Christ and His new covenant is that "something better", the promise that hadn't come for them yet. And if we can see it, this passage also lets us know that "we" and "they" are one....they are "not without us".
Yep, they are the referent of "the spirits of righteous men made perfect"--they were just, and in right standing with God, but they were not made perfect until the inauguration of the New Covenant, but they were waiting, because the blood of bulls and goats cannot take sins away, but men had been relying on blood sacrifice ever since Abel.
 
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The New Covenant is the house of Jesus,
The new covenant is future...... it will put into effect when Israel is in the land ,,,,,God will put his law in their hearts and cause them to do them

[Heb 10:16-17 KJV] 16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
 
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And sadly indeed for them this is my friend .
And why DO you suppose that is my friend .
First off many came to another jesus in the first place . new age jesus or prosperity jesus
or as of late Rainbow inclusive koran kissing jesus , WHICH DARN SURE IS OF ANTI CHRIST ALL THE WAY .
What if i told The jesus so many within CHRISTENDOM beleive to be JESUS , is really satan in wool .
CAUSE sadly IT IS Just that .
@amigo de christo
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[Jhn 15:4 KJV] 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Jesus told the disciples to abide in him
Paul never tells this to the body
John happened before the body was even formed mid acts
Yeah, actually, he does : the ones who are "in Christ" have "no condemnation" (Ro 8:1), but the one who does not walk in faith "is condemned" (Ro 14:23)--meaning they are not abiding in Christ. Paul says "walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh"--he also critiques people who "do not hold fast to the head", etc, etc, etc.
There is so much cross-over of John's and Paul's doctrines, I don't know where to start.
 
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