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*Real** Church** VI – /Becoming One with Jesus/* NV 8~/29~/04 a.m.-Ephesians 5:21-33
*OS:* *A* A Nashville newspaper carried a tongue-in-cheek story about a Mrs. Lila Craig who hadn’t missed attending church in 1,040 Sundays (20 years).
The editor commented, “It makes one wonder, what’s the matter with Mrs. Craig?
Doesn’t it ever rain or snow in her town on Sunday?
Doesn’t she ever have unexpected company?
How is it that she never goes anywhere on Saturday night so that she’s too tired to attend the worship service the next morning?
Doesn’t she ever ’beg off’ to attend picnics or family reunions, or have headaches or need time to read her Sunday newspaper?
Hasn’t she ever become angry at the minister or had her feelings hurt by someone and felt justified in staying home to hear a good sermon on the radio or television?
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH MRS.
CRAIG ANYWAY?”
*I. **What’s the matter with Mrs. Craig?
20 years?*
A. Could it be that nothing is wrong with Mrs. Craig?
(it’s right with her)
B. Could it be that she is married to Jesus?
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Does being married to Jesus strike you as unrealistic or unusual?
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Can you imagine being passionate about Christ as married to Him?
*II.
**A Real church is in love with Jesus, one with Him, married – His bride.*
A. Revelation 21 /2// //I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband./
B. The bride is the church.
*III.
**In our text this morning (Ephesians 5:21-33) Paul deals with husbands and wives, and the church and her husband – Jesus.*
A. A real church has husbands and wives that make strong marriages.
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Within this text we have good instructions from God on how a marriage should be.
2.
At the same time I believe Paul shows us what the Church should be like that is deeply in love with Jesus.
B. Remember – the church is not bricks and mortar.
1.
The church is individual members joined together to be dwelling for God through His Spirit.
2.
On Amity Hill Road we are building a “facility” to be used by the church for ministry to love Jesus.
C. *B C D* Text (Ephesians 5:21-33) *E* Within the passion and love of a husband and wife relationship is the passion and love between the Church and Christ.
*IV.
**The church has a relationship with Christ that is not dead cold religion; instead it is a relationship of love filled with deep passion overflowing into every area of our lives.*
A. I like the story about the *legalistic Seminary student* who wanted to have a scriptural basis for everything he did.
He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote chapter & verse to okay all his actions.
\\ He was doing fine until he fell in love with a beautiful co-ed.
He wanted very much to kiss her, but he just couldn’t find a scripture to okay it.
So, true to his conscience, he would simply walk her to the dormitory each night, look at her longingly, and then say "Good night."
\\ This went on for several weeks, and all the time he was searching the Bible, trying to find some scripture to okay kissing her good night.
But he couldn’t find one, until finally he came across a passage in Romans that says, "Greet each other with a holy kiss."
He thought, "At last, I have scriptural authority for kissing her good night."
\\ But to be sure, he went to his hermeneutics professor to check it out.
After talking with the professor, he realized that the passage had to do more with relationships within the church than with a dating situation.
So once again he simply didn’t have a passage of scripture to okay kissing his girl good night.
\\ That evening he again walked her to the dormitory to bid her "good night."
As he looked longingly into her eyes he told her of his desire to kiss her good night, but that he was unable to find any scriptural basis to approve of such an action.
Immediately she grabbed him, pulled him toward her, and planted a 10-second kiss right on his lips.
At the end of the kiss, the Seminary student gasped for air, and stammered, "Bible verse, Bible verse."
The girl grabbed him a 2nd time, and just before kissing him again, said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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Bible = passionate relationship with Jesus.
*TS]* So what does a church being in love with Jesus look like?
How is the Church to relate to Christ and one another?
I believe Ephesians 5 shows us four ways Christ’s love is working within the Church through the mystery of the husband wife relationship.
*I. **F A real church, becoming one with Jesus, is a submissive church.*
A. In a Peanuts cartoon, Lucy demands that Linus change TV channels and then threatens him with her fist if he doesn’t.
"What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?" asks Linus.
"These five fingers," says Lucy. "Individually they are nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold."
"What channel do you want?" asks Linus.
Turning away, he looks at his fingers and says, "Why can’’t you guys get organized like that?"
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Like it or not we all want our own way.
Giving in to someone else is seen as a weakness.
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During the Revolutionary War an early U.S. flag had 13 red and white stripes with the image of rattle snake and the motto, “Don’t tread on me.”
3. *G* Romans 8 7 /the sinful mind is hostile to God.
It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so./
B. *:*James 4 6 /But he gives us more grace.
That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you./
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Submission is an act of God’s grace in our lives.
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Submission = resisting the devil.
Satan will sow seeds of pride into your life wanting you to take control of your life–to be independent.
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Submissive to one another is directly related to be submissive to God.
C. A submissive church…
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Recognizes that the church belongs to Jesus – He is head.
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Seeks to do His will and serve Him, not themselves.
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Always will ask what He would want.
*TS]* So what does a church being in love with Jesus look like?
…
*II.
**H A real church becoming one with Jesus is a loving church.*
A. Vs.25,
/“Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”/
His love is greater than…
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Pain and suffering – He was still willing
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Betrayal – we were in a state of betrayal and He gave Himself for us.
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Christ has called us to be His very own.
He loves you so much that even though you have betrayed Him He loved~/loves you!
You have been called to be His very own.
B. Because of His love we are to love…
1. *I* 1 John 4:19, “/We love because He first loved us.”
/It is impossible to be a part of a church and not love.
2. *: *John 13 34 “/A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”/
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Jesus didn’t say we would be identified by our buildings, Bibles, or beliefs.
You and I can only be identified as one of Christ’s followers in one way: LOVE.
Our love for Him and one another is the brand that marks us as belonging to Christ.
(Real Church)
4. *J* John 12 32 /But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.”/
LOVE attracts people.
C. When the church is in love with Jesus, when you and I are passionate in our relationship with Christ, LOVE FLOWS FROM OUR LIVES.
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The greatest form of love is not communicated in words.
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