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The Bride & The BodyYouth Sunday Message 2012

Zechariah Lee

Chinese Grace Bible ChurchSunday, July 29, 2012

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

22  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23  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.

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

24  But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

26  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

27  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.

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

28  So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

29  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

30  because we are members of His body.

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Ephesians 5:22-32 (NASB)

31  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.

32  This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

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I. The Bride

A. God’s ________Love

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I. The Bride

A. God’s ________

B. God’s ________

Love

Glory

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

12  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.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

13  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.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

14  For the body is not one member, but many.

15  If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

16  And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

17  If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

18  But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

19  If they were all one member, where would the body be?

20  But now there are many members, but one body.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

21  And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

22  On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

23  and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

24  whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

25  so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

26  And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

27  Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

28  And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

28  And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

29  All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they?

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

30  All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (NASB)

31  But earnestly desire the greater gifts.

And I show you a still more excellent way.

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I. The Bride

A. God’s ________

B. God’s ________

II. The Body

A. Many ___________

Love

Glory

Members

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I. The Bride

A. God’s ________

B. God’s ________

II. The Body

A. Many ___________

B. One _________

Love

Glory

Members

Body