Now we should care only for Him, allowing nothing to replace Him in our hearts. As our Husband, Christ has attracted us, and we have been presented as a pure virgin to Him. We should belong only to Him, and we should appreciate Him and love Him. “I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God for I betrothed you to one Husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.’’ Here we see that Christ is the believers’ Husband, the unique Husband for us to love. In 2 Corinthians 11:2 Paul speaks concerning Christ as the Husband. As those who constitute the counterpart of Christ, we should enjoy Him as such a pleasant Bridegroom. To us He should be the attraction, the pleasure, and the satisfaction. The church should be a corporate bride prepared for Christ. “He who has the bride is the bridegroom.’’ The bridegroom is a most pleasant person, who comes for the bride. The word of John the Baptist in John 3:29 indicates that Christ is the Bridegroom. [The church is the bride, the wife, of Christ, who is the Bridegroom, the Husband. The Church as the Bride, the Wife, of Christ as the Bridegroom, the Husband The church, as Christ’s counterpart, is a satisfaction and rest to Christ in love.] A. The church is not merely a gathering of God’s called ones. To be the church is to render to Christ the adequate satisfaction and rest in love.
A group of Christians should not be so quick to claim that they are the church. If we say that we are the church, then we must ask if Christ has His rest among us. The brothers who are husbands can testify that our satisfaction and rest can only be in our wives. Every husband needs satisfaction and rest, which are found in love. The church as the counterpart of Christ implies satisfaction and rest in love. This indicates that the church bears the same image and has the same stature as Christ. Furthermore, Eve had virtually the same image and nearly the same stature as Adam. This signifies that the church has the same life and nature that Christ has. Eve had the same life and nature that Adam had. This is a marvelous picture of Christ and the church. The husband and the wife are two halves of a whole person. Genesis 2:24 indicates that a man and his wife are one flesh. At last, Adam had found one who could be his counterpart.
When God brought Eve to Adam, Adam exclaimed, “This time it is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh’’ (Gen. Eve was the same as Adam in life, nature, and form. 2:21), and He took a rib out of Adam and built a woman with the rib (Gen. In order to produce such a counterpart, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam (Gen. However, among the fowl, the beasts, and the cattle, he could not find his counterpart. Adam desired to have a counterpart, to have someone to match him. But for Adam “there was not found a help meet for him’’ (Gen. When the fowl, the beasts, and the cattle were brought before Adam, Adam named them one by one. He first created a man, and then from the man He created a counterpart to help him (Gen. In His creation, God did not create a man and woman at the same time. The first couple in the Bible, Adam and Eve, is a picture of Christ and the church. This reveals that the church is actually a part of Christ, for the church comes out of Christ and is unto Christ, just as Eve came out of Adam and was unto Adam (Gen. [In his exhortation in Ephesians 5:22-33, Paul presents the church as the counterpart of Christ.
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