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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

A question arises: on what basis does the Lord Jesus Christ as Bridegroom-to-be fix His conjugal love on the corporate body of any church? There are many denominated ones of widely divergent beliefs; is that husbandly love imprecise and undirected specifically? Does a healthy bridegroom love a whole host of women indiscriminately or is his love fixed on a “one and only”? The Creator’s purpose in making the “alone” man “a helper comparable to him” was to give him a particular love for one woman, not to create a ménage a trois harem (Gen. 2:18; excuse me, I just had to use that one).

 

Our “knowledge” is “in part” and immature (1 Cor. 13:12); but an embryonic understanding must be that a love for truth is the characteristic of any church that Jesus can love in that “Bridegroom” way. “Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in” (Isa. 26:2); there is a clear distinction on that basis.

 

If there is a hint in the message of the Song of Solomon, we know that such a church need not be impressive in a worldly way: the great king was fed up with the proud and arrogant ladies at the court, and sought love in an honest but lowly shepherd girl. Jesus quoted the “Song” in His capacity as “faithful and true Witness” to His hitherto unresponsive church at the end of time (Rev. 3:20; S. S. 5:2-8).

 

Revelation pictures that church as a “remnant” who “keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (12:17, KJV). That is a very distinctive, impressive identity!  Such a “house.... is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15). Jesus tells such a church as a corporate “body”: “do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

 

Wherever in the world such a “church” may be found, “she” must “make herself ready” for “the marriage of the Lamb,” who is her crucified Lord, for whose sake she submits to be “crucified with Him” (Rev. 19:7, 8; Gal. 2:20).

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