We are His bones and flesh...

Posted : 9 Jul, 2014 11:55 PM

The other day I told Muslims about the Church of the Son of God.

And I want to share with you a few wonderful verses too:



For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. :applause: For we are members of His BODY:angel:, of His FLESH:angel: and of His BONES:angel:.



Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.



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3 But fornication :angeldevil:and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints:angel::prayingf::prayingm:; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking:winksmile:, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks:applause:. 5 For this you know, that no fornicato:angeldevil:r, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God:angel:. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words:winksmile:, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience:angeldevil:. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them:angeldevil::devil:.



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8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light:glow: in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit :angel: is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. :boxing:12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:



�Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light:glow:.�



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15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.



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17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk:winksmile::eat: with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs:applause:, singing :yay:and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks :applause:always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.



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25 Husbands, love your wives:hearts:, just as Christ also loved :hearts:the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify :angel:and cleanse her:angel: with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church:angel:, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy:angel: and without blemish:angel:.

28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated:winksmile: his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord:hearts: does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. ...

Ephesians 5



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9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy :angel:of the Lord, fully pleasing Him:peace:, being fruitful in every good work :hearts:and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.



WHO IS THE SON OF GOD?



15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church:angel:, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead:peace:, that in all things He may have the preeminence.



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19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace :hearts::angel:through the blood of His cross.



21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works:angeldevil::devil:, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy:angel:, and blameless:angel:, and above reproach in His sight:angel:� 23 IF :peace:indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast:peace:, and are not moved away:peace: from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven...



Him (the SON of GOD) we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man PERFECT:angel: in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1

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