The New Jerusalem will be a corporate Shulammite, including all of God’s chosen and redeemed people; God became man to court us and become like us, and we are becoming the same as He is in our loving relationship with Him to court Him for our married life together. Amen! The subject of the […]
Abigail’s Wisdom in Appeasing David and being Joined to Christ as His Counterpart
June 2, 2022 by Leave a Comment
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When we realize that our old man is crucified with Christ, we will be joined to Christ to be His counterpart and follow Him in His sufferings and battles. David is the most thorough type of Christ revealed in the Old Testament, and the New Testament also reveals that David typifies Christ; David’s wife, […]
As the Counterpart of Christ, we need to be Romantic Christians Loving the Lord
March 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The relationship that God wants to have with man is of love, and the Bible is a book of romance, for God created us not only to be in His image and with His likeness but that we would become the counterpart of Christ. In the Old Testament in particular we see that God came […]
The Church will Match Christ as Bone of His Bones for their Eternal Married Life
January 13, 2018 by 2 Comments
Only those who are regenerated by Christ and who live by Christ as the church can match Christ and complement Him; when Christ sees this, He will surely say that this time this is bone of His bones and flesh of His flesh. Adam and Eve are a rich type of Christ and the church; […]
The Church is Built with Resurrection Life and Washed by the Word to be the Bride
January 12, 2018 by 3 Comments
As seen in the type of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 and shown throughout the New Testament, the church comes out of Christ, is built in His resurrection life, and is composed of all the believers in Christ who are being transformed to be the counterpart of Christ, the reproduction of Christ. We may […]
Christ’s Death and Resurrection Produced and Built up the Church as His Counterpart
January 11, 2018 by 3 Comments
Through Christ’s death and resurrection, God produced and built the church as the counterpart of Christ. Adam and Eve are a picture, a type, of Christ and the church; when Adam was created, he was a type of Christ, and his need for a wife shows the need Christ has for the church. In God’s […]
Only what Comes out of Christ can be the Church to Match Christ as His Counterpart
January 10, 2018 by 7 Comments
Only what comes out of Christ can return to Christ to match Christ as His counterpart, just as only what came out of Adam and was built by God to become a woman could return to him to be his wife. It is important for us to see what did God do to gain His […]
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