Title: We Are Christ's Half-Sisters
Contents
We and Christ are half brothers and sisters from one Father. He was born from above and we are from below. Therefore, he is not of the world and we are of the world. As it is written, “You are from below, and I am from above; you are of this world, and I am not of this world” (John 8:23), so we and Christ are brothers and sisters of one Father.
It is God's work, and it is God's will, that we who are born below, we who are of the world, be born again from above and become the bride of Christ. According to this will, Christ was born of the line of David, became a member of the world in the flesh, and became obedient to death on the cross, thereby fulfilling God's will.
Therefore, if you deny that he came in the flesh, you become the antichrist. It is written, “By this you know the Spirit of God, that every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God” (1 John 4:2).
The way of the cross is the work of Christ, who was born from above, taking a rebellious daughter from below as his wife and becoming one body. It would be a shame for a holy son to marry a rebellious daughter. That is why the Bible says, “For both those who sanctify and those who are sanctified are all of one. Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brethren, and I will sing praises to you in the midst of the church.” ..” (Hebrews 2:11-12), and again, “Therefore, a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh, and this is a great mystery, I am speaking of Christ and the church” (Ephesians 2:11-12). 5:31-32).
Among the above words, Christ says that God is Lord, and that he will sing praises in the church is a record of what he said when he came into the world in the likeness of sinful flesh and became a part of the world in order to take his half-sister, who was born below, as his wife.
In order for a man, the last Adam, to leave his parents and be united with his wife, and the two become one flesh, he must take on flesh and enter the world. This is because the rebellious daughter of the world must be his wife.
Therefore, according to this will, he was conceived in sin and born in sin, washed with his own blood and died with us to cleanse us. As it is written, “According to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22).
Therefore, now the regenerated church of the bride of the Lamb who is purified by faith in the word of Christ is not the church of the world, but the “New Jerusalem” born again from above.
Therefore, Christ, the Bride of the Lamb, prepared at the wedding feast, comes down from heaven from God. It is written, “One of the seven angels, who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, came and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” I saw the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down from...” (Revelation 21:9=10).
The reason that Abraham's wife Sarah, recorded in the Bible, was Abraham's half-sister, was to speak about us and Christ. Therefore, in the Bible, the new song, the song of the Lamb, is recorded as follows: “My sister, my bride, you have stolen my heart. How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. Your love is more than wine, and the fragrance of your oil is higher than that of all spices. It is like the fragrance of Lebanon. My sister, my bride, is a locked garden, a covered well, a sealed spring” (Song 4:9-12).
Therefore, the meaning of these words, “A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh, is a great mystery, I am speaking of Christ and the church.” Because this is God's case.
But the brides of the Lamb, who have received the Spirit of Christ, say, “But God has revealed these things to us by the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. In the same way, no one knows the circumstances of God except the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10-11), so you will come to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
Therefore, it is written, “This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3). Thank you Lord.
little brother kim yoon-goo