THE REBIRTH OF THE BRIDE

THE REBIRTH OF THE BRIDE

There is nothing like your love

No exchange for all you gave

To be welcomed into life {The rebirth}

So I would know the love which saves

Now forever to belong

To walk with you for all my days

There’s no greater love than this

You are the author and the way

{Song: We The redeemed by Hillsong Music}

 ⁴ We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ We know that our old self^[a] was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.{Romans 6:4-6}

The unworthy natural bride had to die with her groom in order to have His life; Zoe, the very life of God. It was necessary that she puts on a form which cannot be controlled by Sin. She has been enslaved by this monster for years. In fact she was naturally born into Sin and the righteous groom cannot become one with her in marriage unless she takes on a new life that is Immune to Sin.

⁵ For you have become a part of him, and so you died with him, so to speak, when he died; and now you share his new life and shall rise as he did. ⁶ Your old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him; that part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded, so that your sin-loving body is no longer under sin’s control, no longer needs to be a slave to sin; ⁷ for when you are deadened to sin you are freed from all its allure and its power over you. ⁸ And since your old sin-loving nature “died” with Christ, we know that you will share his new life. ⁹ Christ rose from the dead and will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. ¹⁰ He died once for all to end sin’s power, but now he lives forever in unbroken fellowship with God. ¹¹ So look upon your old sin nature as dead and unresponsive to sin, and instead be alive to God, alert to him, through Jesus Christ our Lord. {Romans 6:5-11 TLB}

Now she has a new life, that sin loving body is no longer under sin’s control. The body she has now is no longer a slave to sin. Physically she looks the same as though she is still her old self, but the truth is that she is a new person and this new life has power over sin. Sin will still attempt to control her but she is no longer responsive to sin. Just the way an old Samsung remote control cannot regulate an LG television no matter how hard you press the buttons, so it is with this new life. The sensor has been changed, and sin can no longer remote control her life.

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,⁵ Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)⁶ And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus{Ephesians 2:4-6}

¹³ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses {Colossians 2:13}

¹¹ When you came to Christ, he set you free from your evil desires, not by a bodily operation of circumcision but by a spiritual operation, the baptism of your souls. ¹² For in baptism you see how your old, evil nature died with him and was buried with him; and then you came up out of death with him into a new life because you trusted the Word of the mighty God who raised Christ from the dead.

¹³ You were dead in sins, and your sinful desires were not yet cut away. Then he gave you a share in the very life of Christ, for he forgave all your sins,¹⁴ and blotted out the charges proved against you, the list of his commandments which you had not obeyed. He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross. ¹⁵ In this way God took away Satan’s power to accuse you of sin, and God openly displayed to the whole world Christ’s triumph at the cross where your sins were all taken away.{Colossians 2:11-15 TLB}

Notice that now she shares the very life of Christ. All the charges that was against her, the arrest warrant, and the list of commandments that she couldn’t obey, were all blotted out. The list of sins was destroyed and nailed to the cross. Most importantly is the fact that God took away Satan’s power to accuse her. Now she is beyond accusation and no one can lay a charge against her because she is God’s elect, His beloved bride. 

Love and forgiveness were major factors that provoked the rebirth, the quickening, and the new life. All her sins were forgiven and blotted out as though they never were. They were not to be remembered again. Her past was wiped away and she was made a new creature.

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new {2Corinthians 5:17}

¹⁷ When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun! {2Corinthians 5:17 TLB}

²³ For you have a new life. It was not passed on to you from your parents, for the life they gave you will fade away. This new one will last forever, for it comes from Christ, God’s ever-living Message to men. {1Peter 1:23 TLB}

Now she is a new creature, not the old filthy and unworthy bride. She is now one body with Christ her groom never to be separated by Sin again. She has a new life that will last forever. Why will it last forever? Because this life comes from Christ Himself. His very life is now resident in her. She proceeded from Him.


  Just as Eve came out of Adam’s rib so this bride came out of Christ’s side. Adam had to be in a state of coma for God to take out of his side a rib to make his bride Eve. And when Adam resurrected he said this about his bride “This is the bone of my bone and the flesh of my flesh and she shall be called woman because she came out of man’’

Eve had to take on the form of Adam before she could get married to him. She was therefore made from Adam so she could look like him.

²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s r ibs^[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.²³ The man said,“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.”²⁴ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.{Genesis 2:21-24}

Likewise when this bride was to be reborn, Christ had to die so that His side could be pierced. There came forth water and blood and the Bride was born. When Christ resurrected He said this about his bride” she shall be called THE CHURCH for she is my body and I am her head.

³³ But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:³⁴ But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water{John 19:33-34}

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;{Ephesians 5:23-25}

Just as Adam identified Eve as his body, so has Christ identified the Church to be one with himself. This means that the Church is part of Christ and Christ part of the Church. Just as Eve came out of the first Adam so the church came out of the last Adam {CHRIST}.

Did you notice in the verse above, that Christ is the husband and head of the church, and most importantly the SAVIOUR of the BODY {The church}?

What I see most churches do today is trying to be the saviour of themselves. They have no trust in the ability of the Husband {Christ} to save them. Even though the HEAD has already paid the price to save the body, yet the body doesn’t still feel saved and hence struggles so hard to save itself. What the church doesn’t know is that “whoever tries to save his life will lose it” but “whoever surrenders {loses} his life for the sake of Christ and trusts in the life that Christ gives will find it.”

The church must get off and allow Christ take the driver’s seat. This business of salvation belongs to Him alone. He is the one in charge. He is the saviour of the body. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves. The death He died was enough to save us. The cross was enough!

It is obvious now that it was for His bride The Church that he died. The birth of the Church is the sole purpose of His death. This Church is the bride for whom the whole heavens wait to be married to the lamb. She is clothed in majesty and power. She is holy and sanctified. She is the beloved of the father and the Lamb. She is the glorious one but she knows it not. She has authority over Sin, Satan, sickness and the Earth. She now has the God nature. Principalities and powers tremble when they see her. She has been made the master over Satan yet she still dreads him out of ignorance.

 She sees herself as sinful and unholy yet the groom sees her holy and spotless. She thinks she has to work hard to please her groom not knowing that the PRICE was paid in full for her even when she didn’t know her groom. She must be told how much she is loved else she will struggle for long trying to please her groom. She must have faith in the finished work of the groom but first she must know about His love for her because faith worketh by love.

         NOTES FROM EPISODE 2

(1)                The bride had to be reborn in order to look like her groom

(2)                She died with the groom so she could have His life “Zoe”

(3)                Now she is one body with him never to be separated by sin again

(4)                He is the head and she is the body.

(5)                Her past was wiped away and she became a new creature

(6)                All her sins were forgiven and blotted out as though they never were.

(7)                Now she is holy and glorious

(8)                She has authority over sin, Satan, sickness and the earth.

(9)                She doesn’t have to struggle to please her groom. She is loved unconditionally.