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A Great Mystery
“23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”32. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.33. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:31-33
Christ is our New Husband
Spiritually speaking Adam (mankind) is female. We need God, (who is male) to impregnate us with His SEED.
This SEED is Christ. Once we are impregnated by God ( begotten again) we can now continue to bear Christ inside of us. This is the regeneration and nothing else will work.
Romans 7 explains this
In the Old Testament Adam (mankind) was not filled and impregnated by Christ but by the Law (of Moses). This impregnation did not work, because Moses cannot save Adam. Yet Moses Law was good, even though Moses is not Christ. The problem is Adam (our old man, the flesh). Adam cannot respond correctly to God in any way. The only solution is for Adam to die (we are crucified with Christ). Once Adam has died, then in the resurrection, Christ becomes the new husband and in the resurrection we are now a fruitful wife who can receive and bear Christ.
| 1. Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? | Until we die Moses Law is applicable to us |
| 2. For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. | Only death terminates a marriage. Adam (mankind) was married to Moses Law by God. Only way out of this barren marriage is death (crucifixion) |
| 3. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. | Without death we are bound to Moses and cannot marry Christ. |
| 4. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another— to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. | We die through crucifixion with Christ. Rom 6:3-5 |
| 5. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. | Before crucifixion we could not keep the law of Moses. Or any of Gods law, even the spiritual law. |
| 6. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. | After death (crucifixion) we are able to respond to Christ in fruitfulness. |
| Romans 7:1-6 |
Born/Begotten – the normal process of begetting life
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.6. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7. “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8. “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:5-8
Begotten
For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 4:15
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—10. I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,
Philemon 9-10
Begotten to an incorruptible inheritance
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,4. to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
1 Peter 1:3-4
Analogy of seed growing in our hearts
“Therefore hear the parable of the sower:19. “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.20. “But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;21. “yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.22. “Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.23. “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
Matthew 13:18-23
Seed (Sperma) of God
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed (sperma) remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.10. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:9-10
Israel as God’s wife
Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, So have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:20
“And it shall be, in that day,” Says the Lord, “That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’
Hosea 2:16
The consummated spirit – your spirit joined into one “spirit” with God’s Spirit
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
1 Corinthians 6:16-17
The New Jerusalem the consummated Wife of the Lamb
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
” (Revelation 21:9–13, NKJV)
Hallelujah! Amen and Maranatha!
