HE IS THE SAVIOR OF THE BODY. Therefore the right of leadership is His. What a blessing and privilege to know that He will lead and guide His own. We are His possession, purchased by the extreme price of His redemptive blood. Acts 20:28 In His schedule, there is a day where He will fully redeem His body unto Himself. He will sanctify and perfect the Bride. As the body, she will be all that the head, the Lord Jesus, is in His resurrected status. He cannot marry a bride that is inferior to Himself, she must be like Him. There is no greater glory, to Him, than that which will be seen in His glorified church. Eph. 1:14b.
HE IS THE BEGINNING. He is the firstborn. All things have their beginning in Him. He is our source of life, natural and spiritual. He is the firstborn of many. As He was born of the incorruptible seed, so are we. The same life, the same glory is ours. As the ruler He imparts all things spiritual to us. He is to have the supremacy in the midst of His people. Eph. 1:18 The good pleasure of the Father was to have the completeness of God, all that He is, dwell within the Christ of God. Eph. 1:19 The fullness of the Godhead dwells within His physical, resurrected body. Col. 2:9 Here is the beauty and majesty of this presence, < Ye are complete in Him >. What a tremendous and mighty statement. His bride will be what He is, in all things. One with the Head, filled to completeness with all that is God like. Col. 2:9 The ultimate of the flow of His love in the bride and her response to Him is also an element That will exalt the Bride and make her to be His exact likeness in every Spiritual aspect and manifestation. The destiny of the bride is that she too might be filled with all the fullness of the Almighty. What a marvelous and glorious high calling is ours in Christ Jesus. We shall be like Him. Eph. 3:19
FULLY EXPERIENCING CHRIST. The crucified Christ is the source and the beginning of our salvation. We rejoice in the work that was accomplished for us at the cross. However, the cross must be a still greater part of our spiritual life. The true bride of Christ will be separated, or will die to the sinful elements of this world. This is a great step in the perfection of the church. It speaks of victory in our spiritual life. We must be crucified to the world and the world to us. That is a communication of a life that is dedicated unto the Lord. The Bride will be totally disassociated from all forms of carnality and worldliness. Her glory is not in the things of this life which are frivolous and superfluous, but in the work of the cross in her life. Gal. 5:14