TAKEN OUT BY THE POWER OF HIS NAME
January 13, 2002 am
MF Blume
Ephesians 5:25-32 Husbands, love
your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for
it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh;
but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are
members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For
this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined
unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery:
but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Genesis 2:18-24 And the LORD God said, It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet
for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of
the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them: and whatsoever
Adam
called every living creature, that
was the name thereof. And Adam gave
{gave: Heb. called} names
to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;
but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one
of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which
the LORD God had taken from man, made {made:
Heb. built}
he a woman, and brought her unto
the man. And Adam said,
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called
Woman {Woman: Heb. Isha},
because she was taken out of Man. {Man:
Heb. Ish} Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be
one flesh.
Notice the issue of the Calling of names in Genesis.
God watched to see what Adam would call them.
Genesis tells us that Adam was alone and that it was not a good situation.
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God said it was not good.
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Of all the times God did and said it was good, and once, very good, this
issue was not good.
Genesis 2:19 And out
of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them: and whatsoever
Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
This same event was described as follows:
Genesis 1:24 And God said,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and
creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
God SPOKE the animals out of the Earth as well as formed them!
So SPEAKING THEM out of the ground goes along with forming of
the dust of the ground.
The forming and the speaking occurred together.
And so animals were paraded before Adam.
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Obviously for him to see if anything that presently existed would be suitable
for him since he was alone.
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And after God SPOKE these animals into existence, He wanted to see what
ADAM WOULD SPEAK at them.
There is something to the idea of what Adam would CALL these creatures.
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Something about the words that would come out of Adam's mouth that God
looked for.
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And that would indicate to God whether or not Adam found something that
suited what he needed, for we read this was done after God noted it was
not good for Adam to be alone.
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God had spoken words and created things.
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Adam's word was now the awaited speech.
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God wanted the announcement to come out of Adam's own mouth declaring his
approval and acceptance as filling the gap in his life of having need of
another.
God wanted to see what Adam would say to each of the animals, knowing
Adam needed someone.
And as Adam speaks and CALLS names upon the creatures, God listens
and hears nothing from Adam's mouth that indicates his discovery of what
he needed.
Verse 20 says GAVE NAMES.
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The Hebrew word for this is CALLED NAMES.
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Adam is the one responsible for the naming of the animals.
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The language Adam spoke is unknown to us today, and it really does not
matter.
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The point is that Adam's OPINION came forth in his NAMING or CALLING.
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But amongst all of the CALLING OF NAMES upon the creatures, Adam did not
speak anything that caused God to know Adam had found what he was looking
for in his time of need.
We know it was not just a name that God wanted creatures to have, but rather
an indication from Adam in giving a name that God looked for in Adam's
speech, because of these verses:
Genesis 2:18-20 And the LORD
God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him
an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,
that was the name thereof. And Adam gave (CALLED) names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam
there was not found an help meet for him.
And so God then does something to solve a problem.
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Adam looked but did not find what he needed.
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He spoke and called names upon the creatures, indicating that nothing that
existed would meet his need.
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Nothing would be a help MEET for him.
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Nothing would be a HELP SUITABLE FOR HIM.
It is noteworthy to understand that the word "HELP" is a special word.
I used to think Adam needed HELP to dress and keep the Garden.
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But the word HELP means SUPPORT and SUCCOUR (su'-ker).
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It means RESCUE.
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Adam was in a state of need from which another would rescue him.
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But his words indicated he did not find that need in any of the creatures
that already existed.
So this prompted God to do another work.
Only one way, and one way only, would provide Adam with what he
needed.
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A NEW CREATION must occur.
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A creation apart from the first series.
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And it would involve a TAKING OUT, just as God took animals out of the
ground.
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And also a speaking, just as God SPOKE.
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But since it involved a help for Adam's needs, it would also include ADAM
SPEAKING, just as ADAM spoke the names of the animals.
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And God would see what Adam would SPEAK this time!
God put Adam in a deep sleep.
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A new creation would take place beginning at this point.
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A new forming.
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A new making.
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And even a new speaking.
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God took a rib from inside Adam's body.
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Not out of the ground, for none of that met Adam's need.
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A part of Adam's body.
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And He removed it from Adam, while He was in a deep sleep.
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He BUILDS something out of that rib… SOMEONE.
The He listens for Adam to speak again this time.
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God wanted to see what Adam would "CALL" each of the animals, since Adam
was alone, and God thought it was not good he be alone.
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Adam came into this world with a need.
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That need was to have someone.
And so we read he does indeed SPEAK…
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This
is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Adam said men will leave their parents to obtain their second half
and be fulfilled.
God saw the satisfaction in that statement.
He heard the fulfillment in that.
God saw what Adam CALLED her..
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And God heard the words of need and the words of satisfaction and the words
of RESCUE.
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He heard Adam CALL her and speak the word of a NAME to her.
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And the He heard Adam continue to speak, saying words that indicated satisfaction
and fulfillment.
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"THIS" is now bone of MY bones, and flesh of MY flesh.
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She CAME OUT OF MAN.
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She is PART OF ME.
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I CALL HER "WOMAN".
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I CALL HER "OUT OF MAN".
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"OUT OF ADAM".
…In tones of satisfaction!
Since God saw Adam call her OUT OF MAN, OUT OF ADAM, we read that
God joined in harmony with Adam and accomplished a NAMING also….
Genesis 5:2 Male and female created
he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when
they were created.
The required new creation was named the same name as the Man who was in
need.
God joined with Adam, and agreed that the woman was of him, by calling
BOTH THEIR NAMES THE SAME.
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Since Adam called the girl "woman" – "of me", then God said they're both
ADAM now.
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Adam had a second self in the form of the woman.
From the picture of a deep sleep, to bring about something that suited
Adam, coupled with the SPEECH OF ADAM that spoke declaration and satisfaction
of fulfillment, we see a new creation that tells us the Gospel story 4000
years before was given to the world.
Paul taught the Church that Christ gave himself for its existence.
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As Adam's sleep gave way to God removing a rib to make a satisfaction suitable
for Adam, Jesus' death made it possible for Him to have what He longed
for.
All the world of humanity in Jesus' day was fallen into sin.
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Ironically, Adam and Eve later sinned and brought into the world an entire
race of sinful people.
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And like all the different kinds of animals paraded before Adam, amongst
whom he found none that could be what he really needed, all the nations
and the peoples and the ethnicity of the world could not meet Jesus' need.
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Amongst the red and yellow, black and white, none stood out more than the
other to meet Christ's need.
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Peter even saw a vision of all the nations of the world in Acts 10 as represented
by all sorts of animals of every kind.
One way and one way only would provide Jesus with that need.
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Jesus would give Himself to the deep sleep of the death of the cross.
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And from that state of HIS DEATH, would God take a part of Jesus and build
it.
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A new creation of humans would occur at the point of Jesus' death on the
cross.
And as ADAM SPOKE and CALLED A NAME, while God builded the new creation,
the word CHURCH means called out ones.
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You can see a person in a room and desire them to be in another room.
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If you stand between them and the destination, by force of your hands you
are said to PULL them out.
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If you stand behind them, with them between you and the destination, by
force of hands you can PUSH them out.
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You can CARRY them out by lifting them and walking them.
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You can drive them out.
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Cart them out.
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But CHURCH MEANS "NAMED OUT."
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By force of SPEAKING A NAME to the person, they come out.
God created the world by speaking.
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He made the world by speaking.
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His word is creative.
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And God made man in His image.
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As God was in the spirituals, man would be in the physical earth.
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And as angels watched what God would SPEAK into existence, God's turn came
to watch what ADAM would call.
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And while God built the new creation from Adam, Adam CALLED and ADAM SPOKE.
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And that WORD was WOMAN.
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OUT OF ME.
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FROM ADAM.
And so we later read:
Genesis 5:2 Male and female created
he them; and blessed them, and called their
name Adam, in the day when they were created.
God worked together with Adam and named the woman ADAM.
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He acted upon what Adam SPOKE.
CHURCH means NAMED OUT OF.
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A name was spoken to these people, and that very act of speaking caused
a creative work to occur.
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A NEW creative work.
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A NEW CREATION.
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If Paul compares Adam's words speaking of Eve from his body and flesh with
the church from Jesus; body and flesh…
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And the NAME God gave to the woman was the same NAME of the man she was
taken out of…
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Then WHAT NAME IS GOD TRYING TO TALK TO US ABOUT IN SAYING THE WORD CHURCH
MEANS "NAMED-OUT PEOPLE"?
JESUS!!!
It's the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!!
And if Adam spoke that name in his experience of having laid in
a deep sleep, and God taking part of himself out of himself to make this
new creation for Adam, what experience did the NAMED-OUT ONES relate to
with Jesus Christ?
HIS DEATH!
Speaking the name of Jesus in order to cause new creation to actually
come out from within Jesus' death is exactly fulfilled in WATER BAPTISM
IN JESUS' NAME.
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that
so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his
death?
Baptism puts the red or yellow, black or white, into Jesus Christ specifically
at the point of His death.
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Like a rib inside the body of Adam, we are put into Jesus in the experience
of His death.
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From Adam's deep sleep was the inside part of Adam removed and made Adam's
wife.
Somebody once asked me where the Bible taught the thought I once proposed
to them that as a woman takes on her husband's name when she is married,
we take on the name of Jesus Christ and are married to Him in water baptism.
HERE IS WHERE THIS IS TAUGHT!
CHURCH MEANS "NAMED OUT OF."
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TAKEN OUT BY THE POWER OF HIS NAME
And its all connected with the new creature Adam called WOMAN – OUT OF
ADAM.
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The new creature was distinctly WOMAN.
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The new creation is the CHURCH, the bride of Christ.
Watch this:
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest
thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name
of the Lord.
Ananias used some insightful God-inspired words as he spoke to Paul about
water baptism.
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He said that Paul had to arise and be baptized CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE
LORD.
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The two English words "CALLING ON" come from one Greek Word that means
PERMIT ONESELF TO HAVE A SURNAME, TO BE NAMED AFTER SOMEONE, TO CALL SOMEONE
TO ONESELF.
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As God named both the man and the woman ADAM, Christ and the Church are
named JESUS!
Ep-ee-kal-eh'-om-ahee – "calling on"
In other words, Ananias would speak the words, "I baptize you in the
name of Jesus Christ," and by doing so, would actually cause Paul to receive
a new surname of JESUS!
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It would cause Paul to be named after JESUS.
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It would cause Paul to be called out, as though taken out, to Jesus by
the mere speaking of the NAME!
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It would make Paul part of the new creation.
And God would work with Ananias and make Paul into part of Jesus' body,
specifically in the state of Jesus' death, and make Paul a NEW CREATURE.
Yes, it does matter what is spoken to a person in faith when they
are baptized to see them become new creatures and part of the Body of Christ!
God watched to see what Adam would call the new creature.
I think He watches to see what we will call the people when we
baptize them!
WOMAN is what Adam called the girl, and means "out of man."
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CHURCH means "named out of"
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Paul quotes this part of Genesis to explain how the CHURCH is bone of Jesus'
bones.
Jesus GAVE himself in order to have a church.
Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love
your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for
it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
He DIED laying down in a deep sleep to have a church.
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To have a "NAMED OUT" wife.
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He gave Himself.
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Don't you think that Adam GAVE himself, knowing it would provide
him with what he wanted and what he needed!
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"With the washing of water by the word."
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Washing of water is Baptism.
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(Ananias told Paul to be baptized, washing away his sins.)
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"By the word" points to the SPEAKING.
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Speaking of the NAME.
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THE WORD.
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THE SPOKEN WORD.
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CHURCH means CALLED OUT, or more specifically, "NAMED OUT."
His death allowed Him to sanctify and cleanse Himself a church.
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Washing of water is the baptism, because He gave Himself in death in order
to WASH himself a church.
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Out of that death came one who was SPOKEN TO and CALLED with the SPEAKING
OF THE NAME OF JESUS.
Every person SPOKEN to IN THIS MANNER becomes a part of Jesus' body being
BUILT BY GOD into a CHURCH.
As with Adam, the part of Jesus' body was taken and then BUILT by God.
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The word MADE, in "the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made
he a woman", is the Hebrew word BUILT.
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also,
as lively stones, are built up a
spiritual house,…
Each of us becomes a part of the Body of Jesus that God takes and BUILDS
into His Bride.
Revelation 21:2 And I John saw
the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband.
Revelation 21:9-10 And there came unto me
one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last
plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I
will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed
me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God,
COME, HERE'S THE BRIDE!
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The bride was BUILT by God.
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Except the Lord BUILD the house, they labour in vain that do build.
Not just by any word of speech does Jesus cause us to come out of His body
as part of Him,
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… but through NAMING US OUT.
TAKEN OUT BY THE SHEER POWER OF SPEAKING HIS NAME
Yes, it does matter what is SPOKEN to you when you are baptized.
THE SPOKEN WORD DOES ACCOMPLISH A MIRACLE.
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It's the word of FAITH.
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Speaking the syllables accomplishes nothing without the FAITH in the Name
of Jesus.
And since His rib was part of Him when He died, and that rib was formed
into us, then we can say we died with Him.