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Putting on His Righteousness as becoming the Bride of Christ.

 Have you submitted yourself to God as His personal slave to live in His Righteousness in order to become the Bride of Christ?Jesus Christ did. The 12 apostles and Paul did:

(Eph 6:13-17) "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. {14} Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; {15} And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; {16} Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. {17} And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

The Bride of Christ "shalt have no other gods before me." Exo 20:3

In this study of Gods Holy Word, we are going to look at, and see, that the Words of Christ are so simple that most people fail to understand how the Lord is working with all mankind to take for himself a Bride out of Babylon systems of worship to worship Him only. A bride that is purifying herself by reading and understanding the simple words of the Holy Scriptures. A chaste virgin who has washed herself by the WORD. By both hearing and doing what the Father of the Groom has Commanded her to do in order to marry His Righteous Son, the LAMB of GOD. We first must become righteous here on earth so as to allow the Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son to come in and make their abode in us. When that happens, we have symbolic been married to Christ and moved into the Fathers HOUSE.

(Rom 7:4) "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."

(John 14:2-3) "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. {3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

(John 14:23) "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."

When Issac and Rebekah first ment and came together there was no wedding as we know it. They just made their abode together. Issac being symbolic of Jesus and Rebekak symbolic of the Bride of Christ, both coming together as one new person.

(Luke 24:49) "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

Both ,the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world have authority over their subject. In essence they are both Kingdoms with all there subjects being SLAVES to the Kingdom they are in. The subjects in both have to serve their Masters. It requires no effort on our behalf to become part of one of these Kingdoms of this world. We are born into them. Earthly kingdoms have spirit beings ruling over them that are in rebellion against the Righteous Ways of God (Elohim). The Holy Scriptures teach that all mankind are born in rebellion against the Elohim (Mighty ONE) of IsraEl that created them. Mankind inherited their sin nature from there earthly father Adam. Adams kingdom is a kingdom of self worship, obeying ones own desires.

Not so the Kingdom of the Righteous Elohim who created earth and put His created man on it to rule on earth for Him as His Sons. Only when one comes to the realization that we, His people, whom He created for His Pleasure and Glory must do things His WAY in order for us to return to having His Righteous LIFE living in us. When we realize that we belong to Him and that He as our creator has every right to given us Commandments that tell us how we are to live our lives in His Righteousness. Adam transgressed the Commandment Christ gave to him in the garden and we are all born sinners today. Only when we STOP disobeying His Commandments can we return to walking together with Him.

The meaning of the word Yisrael is My people (Bride) of ELOHIM. " All Israel (the Bride of Christ) shall be saved"

We will see in the following Scripture how the God of Israel was and still is working in peoples lives to bring them back to LIVING His Righteous WAY of LIFE so they can inherit His Everlasting LIFE in His Kingdom of Righteousness.

(Rev 18:4-5) "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. {5} For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities."

This scripture is not talking about people in the gentile world, but about His people Israel whom He was married to. His Bride that was committing IDOLATRY by WORSHIPPING the Host of Heaven and the gods associated with them. Also by Celebrating the Sun, Moon and Star, and Holy Days associated with them. The four seasons of the SUN along with dead saints.

(Titus 2:14) "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."

 

That scripture is talking about the Messiah that came to teach us the WAY of His Salvation and then gave His life to cleanse us from sin. After we put are old man to death, He comes and makes His abode in us as our New Husband.

(2 Cor 5:17-18) "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. {18} And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ."Not married to (by serving) the gods of the world, but married (serving) to the LAMB of God from above who is the Bridegroom of the Church.

 

(2 Cor 11:1-6) "Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. {2} For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. {3} But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. {4} For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. {5} For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. {6} But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things."

 

"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;"

 

If you are the Bride of Christ in marriage, you have been given His NAME as you are Husband and wife. Now you should not serve other gods. You are the Bride of the Holy Christ. If you do serve other gods, you are an adulterer and you have taken His name in vain. You did not keep your vows and He will divorce you. You did it all in vain.

 

"Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: (Jer 3:14-15)"

 

 

 

In what ways do the the Brides of Christ commit adultery?

(Exo 20:5-7) "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God (Husband), visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; {6} And showing mercy unto thousands of them (the Brides of Christ) that love me, and keep my commandments. {7} Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him (You, His bride) guiltless that taketh his name in vain."

(James 5:7) "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain."

(Exo 34:14-17) "For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (husbandman) God: {15} Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; {16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. {17} Thou shalt make thee no molten gods."

(Deu 4:23-24) "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the (Marrage) covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God (Husband) hath forbidden thee. {24} For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous (Husband) God."

(Deu 5:9-11) "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them (former husbands): for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, {10} And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments (Marrage covenant). {11} Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God (whom you are married to) in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."(Josh 24:14-15) ""Now therefore revere the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. {15} Now if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.""(Josh 24:19-24) "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. {20} If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. {21} And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. {22} And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. {23} Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. {24} And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey." (A binding Covenant between them and God.)

If God had not had mercy on them for His Name sake, He would have destroyed them all. To transgress Gods Covenant of Marriage, brings death to the individual who commits adultery with another lover. God had the same physical law in His Nation of Israel.

If God had not had mercy on them for His Name sake, He would have destroyed them all. To transgress Gods Covenant of Marriage, brings death to that individual who commits adultery with another lover.

(Jer 3:14-15) "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: {15} And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding."

 

(Mal 2:11) "Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god."

 

(Mat 22:30) "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."

 

The Nation of Israel that Christ as the Husbandman of His Body so LOVED.

(Ezek 16:8-18) "Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant (of marrage) with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. {9} Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. {10} I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. {11} I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. {12} And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. {14} And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

As the Bride of the Christ of Israel, His Bride went and played the Harlot. Have you stopped playing the Harlot since you accepted Christ as your NEW Husbandman? If your still keeping Pagan Holy days, you haven't. Easter, Christmas, Lint, Halloween, etc.

(Ezek 16:15) But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

Are some in the Christian Church, the Body of Christ, still today doing the same things that the Old Covenant wife of God did in the first Marriage Covenant? You are if you reject any one of the Ten Commandment of the Marriage Covenant He made for all His Israel.

(Rom 11:26) "And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, "Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob."" It was this same deliverer who gave His Covenant of marriage to His people Israel on Mount Sinai,

(John 13:13) "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am."

(Mat 8:9-12) "For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and the slave does it." {10} When Jesus heard him, he was amazed and said to those who followed him, "Truly I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. {11} I tell you, many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, {12} while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

(2 Ki 17:15-16) "They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their ancestors, and the warnings that he gave them. (Ist and 2nd Commandment) They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had COMMANDED that they should not do as they did. {16} They rejected all the COMMANDMENTS of the LORD their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal."

* "The Canaanite and Israelite people worshipped their deity in the form of a sacred pole or ashera with a snake on it. It was named for the goddess Ashera (= Easter) who has a snake as its guardian deity."

 

(Acts 9:31) "Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers."

2 Cor 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.

(Mark 12:30-32) "you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' {31} The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." {32} Then the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that 'he is one, and besides him there is no other';"

(1 Cor 8:6-7) "yet for us there is ONE God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. {7} It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled."

 

(Gal 4:4-9) "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, {5} in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. {6} And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" {7} So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God. {8} Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. {9} Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?

 

 

 

 

(1 Cor 8:6-7) "yet for us there is ONE God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. {7} It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled."

(Gal 4:4-9) "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, {5} in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. {6} And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" {7} So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God. {8} Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. {9} Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?"

Adam (mankind) was Created as the Sons of GOD. (Elohim)

(Gen 1:28) "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

(Gen 2:15-17) "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. {16} And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: {17} But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

(1 Cor 6:19-20) "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? {20} For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

You do not buy Sons, you buy SLAVES.

(Acts 17:27-30) "That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: {28} For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. {29} Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. {30} And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:"

(Luke 6:46-49) "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things (MY Commandments) which I say? {47} Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them (MY Commandments), I will show you to whom he is like: {48} He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. {49} But he that heareth, and doeth not (MY Commandments), is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great."

(John 15:15-17) "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. {16} Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. {17} These things I command you, that ye love one another."

(1 Pet 1:16-20) "Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. {17} And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: {18} Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; {19} But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: {20} Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,"

(Mark 3:35) "For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

(Mark 12:2) "When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard." (The Slave in this case was His own Son, Jesus Christ) (Not my will, but thy will be done.)

(Rom 12:1-2) "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. {2} And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

(Gal 1:4-5) "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: {5} To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."

(Eph 6:5-8) "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; {6} not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. {7} Render service with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not to men and women, {8} knowing that whatever good we do, we will receive the same again from the Lord, whether we are slaves or free."

(Col 4:12) "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God."

(Heb 10:35-37) "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. {36} For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. {37} For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry."

(1 Pet 4:1-2) "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; {2} That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God."

 

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