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What may we expect to find in a ìglorious church.î Eph. 5:27 Paul anticipated a people who were sanctified, dedicated to the service of the Lord, purified, that is made holy, cleansed and totally without, sin a work accomplished by their adherence to the Word of the Lord. They live the book. Oh yes it can be done, we do not have to sin everyday in word thought or deed. Jesus was every bit as human as we are. There is not a temptation common to man but what He was tested by that sin, yet He remained without sin and became the perfect sacrifice for us. Heb. 4:15 The same power that kept Him from sin is made available to all who truly desire to live in such fashion. The rapture is not for sinning saints. Even now He will keep anyone from sin who earnestly desires to live that manner of a joyous life. Jude 24 There is no spiritual change at the time of the rapture, the change is physical. A spiritual, eternal body for the natural corruptible body. The living who are taken up at His coming will be presented faultless before His throne because they are a sanctified people.
The true church in the end of the age will be a church of absolute unity. Jesus prayed for that perfect accord, which He likened to the harmony which exists between His Father and Himself. His words were for them to be One, even as we are. John 17:11 Again, He declared that there would be one fold and one shepherd. John 10:16 Paul had the same vision and delivered that message to the church at Ephesus. The motivating force is love, a love for the Lord and a love for the body of Christ, the church. A love that is to be exercised in lowliness and meekness of heart and attitude toward each other. Learning to work together in peace and harmony. Eph. 4:2.
There is but one body, not a man made organization but an organism comprised of those who are of one heart and mind. One Spirit, where the power is invested in the person of the Holy Spirit. Eph. 4:4 He is the dynamic which communicates the will and desire of the Lord to the whole of the body. Here is the power with which the Lord can communicate simultaneously with the whole of His body on earth causing them to react as one, a perfect unit. Every believer is born of the Spirit. All should be filled with the Spirit and we most definitely should not stop there. By the same Spirit, the Lord is building a habitation for Himself composed of the lively stones, who are the church, the bride of Christ. Eph. 2:22 The church of Ephesians five may not have grand structures in which to worship but they will be the Spiritual, super natural building of the Lord. They will be known as the New Jerusalem, the city, the habitation of the Most High. Rev. 3:12, 21:2.