Jesus (Yeshua) is the Messiah who will reign in the eventual kingdom of God.
He is the one appointed by God to judge the world in righteousness.[1] We have
faith in Christ that we shall partake of life and enter into this kingdom.[2]
His people are to live with the understanding that we are his bride to be
presented with him at resurrection when he returns.[3] By faith, our salvation
comes through trusting in Jesus and following after him. Having died to sin through the body of Christ, we now belong to him who has been
raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.[4] Indeed, it is
through him we are made holy and receive the Holy Spirit from God. [5] In our
confession of Jesus as both Lord and Christ,[6] we must also recognize that
Jesus must be our master if he is to be our savior. Thus, our ministry toward
the Son of God, is to trust him by living according to his lordship. As
ministers of the life that is in his name, we proclaim Jesus as the one who will
judge the world in righteousness, who will uphold life in choosing who will be
saved. As it is written, “For us there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom
are all things and through whom we exist.”[7]
While our
relationship with God is like sons to their father, our relationship with his
Christ is as a wife to her husband.[8] Jesus is our head and authority.[9]
“For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the
church, his body, and is himself its savior.”[10] In marriage, two become one
flesh, and we are joined into the body of our lord Jesus through the marriage of
obedience and faith in his name.[11] Being part of his body, we are sanctified
and cleansed by the washing of water (Spirit) and with the word (truth), to be
presented to him in splendor, in holiness, and without blemish.[12] Indeed, as
the lord of our salvation, Jesus is our perfect high priest.[13] For, “there is
one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a
ransom for all.”[14] Indeed, Jesus is the head of the church, which is his
body.[15] While the Church consists of many different persons, we are all
servants of one lord.[16] We shall hold fast to our head, for it is through our
Christ that the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and
ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.[17] We shall not deny, nor be
led astray from sincere and pure devotion to our master and lord.[18]
[1] Luke 19:38, John 12:13, 1 Tim. 6:14-15, Rev 11:15, 17:14, 19:16 [2]
Rom. 5:1, 11 [3] 1 Cor 1:7-8, 2 Cor 11:2, 1 Thes 5:23, Ephes 5:25-32, 1 Peter
1:7-9, 5:4, Rev 19:6-8 [4] Rom 7:4, 14:8-9, 1 Cor 1:30, 6:15, Col 1:21-22,
Ephes. 2:19-22, 1 Peter 2:1-7 [5] 1 Cor 1:30 [6] Acts 2:36 [7] 1 Cor.8:6 [8] 2
Cor. 11:2-3, Ephes. 5:23-24 [9] 1 Cor. 11:3, 2 Cor. 11:2-3, Ephes. 5:22-23, 6:5
Col.1:18 [10] Ephes 5.22 (ESV) [11] Ephes 5:30-31, 1 Cor. 6:15, 10:16-18 [12]
Ehpes. 5:25-27, 1 Cor. 1:30, Heb 2:17 [13] Col 1:22, Heb 2:17, 4:14-15, 7:3 [14]
1 Tim 2:5-6a [15] Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17-18, Acts 4:11, Col.1:18, 2:19, 1 Cor
12:27, Ephes. 4:15, 5:22-23. 1 Peter 2:4-7 [16] Rom 14:4-5, 1 Cor:12:12-13 [17]
Col. 2:19, 3:15, Rom 7:4, Ephes 2:19-22, 4:15-16 [18] 2 Cor 11:2-3, 1 Peter
2:25, Jude 1:4
