Overcoming Believers Live Christ and are Built Together to be the Bride of Christ

Christ came as the Lamb of God and as the Bridegroom; He came not only to redeem us but also to gain us as His bride, and today the readiness of the bride depends on the maturity in life of the overcomers, so we want to be the overcoming believers who live out Christ to be part of His bride today! Amen, Lord, make us Your bride!

Revelation 19:7-9 shows us a wonderful proclamation: Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. Hallelujah!

And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean, for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints. These are the true words of God.

Amen, blessed are they who are called to the marriage dinner of the Lamb!

The Lord Jesus came as the Bridegroom to court us and gain us, and we believers in Christ have been drawn to Him.

We love Him, we open to Him, and we have a love relationship with Him in our Christian life. We want to be prepared as the bride of Christ so that, when He returns, He would rapture us and we will enter the wedding feast with Him.

We believers in Christ are part of the church, and the church is the wife of Christ. However, there’s a difference between being the bride and being the wife.

Being the bride is for just one day, the wedding day, and being the wife is a lifelong matter, after being the bride.

The sweetness and freshness is when someone is the bride, which is just one day. In the Lord’s eyes, one day is like a thousand years.

The wedding feast of the Lamb and the Bride, Christ and the overcoming ones as components of the bride of Christ, is one thousand years, the age of the millennium, which is the coming age.

Today we need to cooperate with the Lord to be produced as His overcomers so that we may be part of the bride of Christ.

Not all believers in Christ will be part of the bride of Christ; all believers are part of the wife of Christ, but not all are qualified to be the bride.

This is because the bride of Christ consists only of the overcoming believers.

If we are not overcoming believers, we cannot be part of the bride; rather, we will have to be disciplined and perfected for one thousand years to become overcoming ones so that they may be qualified to be part of the wife of Christ, the New Jerusalem.

May we be those who offer the Lord the best cooperation in this age to be prepared as His bride when He returns!

Christ is the Lamb to Take away our Sin and the Bridegroom to Gain us as His Bride

In John 1:29, John the Baptist saw the Lord Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Christ came as the Lamb of God to take away our sin; He died for our sins, took away our sins, and He shed His blood to wash and cleanse us from our sin.

How we love the Lord Jesus as the Lamb of God! How we appreciate Him as the One who takes away our sins!

In John 3:29, John the Baptist again said of the Lord that He is the Bridegroom who has the bride, and he (John) was the friend of the Bridegroom, rejoicing to hear His voice.

Christ came not only as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world but even more, as the Bridegroom.

As the Bridegroom, Christ came to gain His bride. He walked on the earth, worked, ministered, and did and said many things, and in all these things, He was looking for His bride.

He wanted to gain a group of people who would love Him, follow Him, believe into Him, receive Him, and be His bride.

In order for Him to gain His bride, Christ had to be the Lamb of God to redeem us, save us of our sins, and bring us into the right position for us to be His bride.

In the Gospel of John, Christ is revealed both as the Lamb who came to take away sin and as the Bridegroom who came that He might have the bride.

He came to give Himself for us and be put to death for us on the cross to redeem us; He is the Lamb of God, accomplishing God’s redemption for us on the cross. Also, He came as the Bridegroom to have a wedding. He came to court us, woo us, and gain us as His bride.

Most Christians today focus on the fact that Christ is the Lamb of God and the Saviour, and they appreciate that He came to take away their sins and cleanse them.

This is a wonderful aspect of what Christ is and what He has done.

However, we need to see further that He is the Bridegroom who came to gain us as His bride so that He may marry us, have a wedding feast, and live an eternal married life with us. As the Lamb, He was slain on the cross and shed His blood for our sins.

As the Bridegroom, He came to have a wedding. Throughout the ages, God has been working and doing things to gain a counterpart for Himself.

In Revelation 19:1-6, we see the praise of the great multitude of the saints, the angels, and all the creatures.

Then, in verses 7-9, we see that the marriage dinner of the Lamb has come and His wife has made herself ready! Hallelujah!

Christ as the Bridegroom will gain His bride and will marry her, and He will have a wedding feast! We are now in the process of being prepared to be the bride of Christ so that one day we may marry Him and enter the wedding feast with Him!

The wife spoken of in this verse refers to the church (Eph. 5:24-25, 31-32), the bride of Christ.

In particular, this refers to and consists only of the overcoming believers, for only the overcoming believers are qualified to enter the wedding feast for one thousand years (one day in God’s eyes) during the next age, the age of the millennium.

We aspire to be the Lord’s overcomers today, those who overcome in the situation we are in, being one with the Lord in all things.

On the one hand, we enjoy Him as the Lamb of God; on the other hand, we open to Him as the Bridegroom and we give Him our best love.

At the end of the Bible, we see a city, the New Jerusalem, which is the wife of the Lamb (Rev. 21:2, 9-10).

Christ the Bridegroom will gain a wife, for He as the Redeeming God is the Husband and the church will be consummated to be the New Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb.

Today, we are being prepared to be the bride of Christ to go and meet Him, and He is on the throne in the third heaven, prepared to come as the Bridegroom to meet us. Amen!

He will come from heaven and we will ascend from the earth, and we are going as the bride to meet our Bridegroom. We will meet Him neither in heaven nor on the earth but in the air, and we will have a wedding with Him! Praise the Lord!

May we see that today we are not only redeemed people who are waiting for Jesus to return; we are the bride of Christ, His wife, being prepared to enter the wedding feast in the coming age and living an eternal life with Him as the New Jerusalem, loving Him and reigning with Him over all things!

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world. We believe into You as our Redeemer, we apply Your precious blood, and we are cleansed from every sin. Amen, Lord, we love You as our Bridegroom, the most lovely One! We love You and we open to You. You are the most wonderful One. Thank You for coming to court us and woo us, even to gain us as Your bride. We open to You in love. Gain us as Your bride. Prepare us as Your bride. Work Yourself into us and do in us what You need to do to transform us and make us Your perfect bride. Amen, Lord, we want to cooperate with You today by loving You, living one spirit with You, and doing all things one with You so that we may be prepared as Your bride! Praise the Lord, we are here on the earth being prepared to become the bride to meet Christ, and He’s on the throne in the third heaven prepared to come as the Bridegroom to meet us! Amen, Lord, we long for the day when we hear the declaration, Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready!

Overcoming Believers Live Christ and are Built Together to be the Bride of Christ

When that declaration is made, The marriage of the Lamb has come; everyone will rejoice and exult!

After the rapture of the majority of the saints (Rev. 14:16; 1 Thes. 4:15-16) and the judgment at the judgment seat of Christ for the giving of the reward (Rev. 11:18; 2 Cor. 5:10), the events that immediately follow should include the marriage of the Lamb (Rev. 19:7b).

If we are rewarded at the judgment seat of Christ, we will participate in the wedding feast, but if we’re not rewarded but disapproved of by the Lord, we will not perish but will suffer a loss like that described in 1 Cor. 3:15. Oh Lord Jesus!

The Lord Jesus, when He was on earth, said the same thing at the end of Matthew chapter 7, when He said that not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of God the Father, but those who have done the perfect will of the Father.

There will be many on that day who throughout their life have served God, did many things for God, and accomplished many great works in God’s name, yet the Lord will tell them, Depart from Me, workers of lawlessness; I never knew you.

The Lord did not say that they didn’t do this and that great work for Him; He will simply reject them because they did not do the perfect will of God.

We need to pray for ourselves and for the saints we are with that on that day we would not be rejected or disciplined by the Lord, but rather, we would be welcomed and rewarded by Him.

We need to realise that the readiness of the bride depends on the maturity in life of the overcomers.

We need to grow in life unto maturity, and we need to live Christ day by day, being built up together with the saints so that we may be part of the bride of Christ.

How much we need to grow in life unto maturity, allowing the Lord to grow and increase in us, even as we decrease (John 3:30)! We need to let Him flow in us and saturate us with Himself.

This means that, throughout the day, we should focus not on doing the right thing or the things that are good, but rather, care for enjoying Christ as life.

We need to care for the tree of life, enjoying Christ as life and paying attention to the Triune God and Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit.

We may be at home with our family or we may be in the church meetings with the saints; wherever we are, whatever we do, we need to live out Christ.

We need to enjoy Christ, contact Christ, and live by Christ so that we may live out God, who is Spirit.

In this way we become His shining testimony, the golden lampstand, even the bride of Christ who satisfies His heart’s desire.

We cannot and should not be satisfied with merely living a life where we don’t sin or we apply the Lord’s blood to be cleansed from our sins, and that’s it; we need to pursue Christ, love Christ, and seek to gain Christ, even seek to be built up with the saints into the bride of Christ for Him to gain His heart’s desire, the church as the bride of Christ.

When we are fully saturated with the Triune God so that He flows in us and also out of us, we will be completely built and fitted together to become the glorious church, the beloved bride of the Lord Jesus. Amen!

On the personal side, we need to grow in life unto maturity, for the readiness of the bride depends on the maturity in life of the overcomers.

On the corporate side, we need to be built up together, for the Lord will not marry individual overcomers but a corporate bride. Christ as the Bridegroom will not marry each individual believer who overcomes, but the corporate bride of Christ composed of all the overcoming believers.

We want to be the overcoming believers in Christ who grow in life unto maturity and live Christ so that we may be part of His bride today.

Lord Jesus, we want to be the overcoming believers in Christ who grow in life unto maturity and live Christ so that we may be part of Your bride! We love You, Lord, and we open to You! We want to be filled with You and saturated with You. We don’t care about right or wrong; we simply want to live Christ! We care for the tree of life, the Triune God, and Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to contact You. We want to live one with You today. Keep us in our spirit. Keep us contacting You whether at home or abroad. Oh Lord, we want to live by Christ, live out Christ, and express You. Live in us today. Keep us in the mingled spirit, one spirit with You in all things. Saturate us and permeate us with all that You are. Spread from our spirit into all the inward parts of our being until You saturate even our mortal body. Build us up together with the saints, Lord, so that we may be Your glorious bride! Amen, Lord, gain us as Your overcoming believers who are part of the bride of Christ!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brother Ron Kangas in this conference, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 424, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Preparation of the Bride (2025 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 1, The Bride—the Goal of the Lord’s Recovery – day 3.
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  – The Bible is the Word of God, / Its message is but one— / Christ and the church, His holy Bride, / The two becoming one. / Oh, what a miracle that we could be His Bride! / Oh, what a miracle! All else we lay aside / That we may now prepare to meet Him in the air / And ever in our Bridegroom’s love abide. (Hymns #1228 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – The Lord is longing for His Bride, / All glorious within. / His heart will then be satisfied / When she is fit for Him. / ’Tis by the Word the church is made / Holy and pure as He; / All spots and wrinkles it removes / That she His Bride may be. (Hymns #1310 stanzas 1-2)