In this address, you will hear what the Bible teaches about The Assembly, The Body & The Bride.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
Ephesians 5:25-27 “25 Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,26 in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,27 that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.“
1 Corinthians 12:11-14 “11 But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.12 For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ.13 For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.14 For also the body is not one member but many.“
1 Corinthians 12:28 “28 And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tngues. “
Revelation 21:9-11 “9 And there came one of the seven angels which had had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.10 And he carried me away in [the] Spirit, [and set me] on a great and high mountain, and shewed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,11 having the glory of God. Her shining [was] like a most precious stone, as a crystal-like jasper stone;“
Revelation 21:2 “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”