A True BridePrimary Text: Ephesians 5:22-33 May 31, 2020This Week’s Teaching 1) A Church that SubmitsEphesians 5:22-33: 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water
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A True Bride

Primary Text: Ephesians 5:22-33 May 31, 2020

This Week’s Teaching

1) A Church that Submits

Ephesians 5:22-33: 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

• DQ 1) What would it look like for the global church to submit to Christ? What would be the outcomes of doing so?

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2) A Wayward People

Jeremiah 3:11-15: 11 The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. 12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: "'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, 'I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,' declares the LORD, 'I will not be angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your guilt--you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,'" declares the LORD. 14 "Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you--one from a town and two from a clan--and bring you to Zion. 15 Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

• DQ 2) How was the nation of Israel unfaithful to God in Old Testament days?

• DQ 3) How is the United States unfaithful to God today?

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3) American Churches

Revelation 2:1-5: 1 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus…. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. 4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.

Revelation 2:18-21: 18 "To the angel of the church in Thyatira…. 19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. 20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

Revelation 3:1-3: 1 "To the angel of the church in Sardis…. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent.

Revelation 3:14-17: 14 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea… 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot, I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

• DQ 4) How is the modern, American church unfaithful to God?

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4) The Wedding of the Lamb

Revelation 19:6-9: 6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: "Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 8 Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) 9 Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!'" And he added, "These are the true words of God."

• DQ 5) What would constitute “righteous acts of the saints”?

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SUNDAY: YOUTH & ADULT VERSE BY VERSE (The Gospel of Mark)

• Room S213 (Upstairs in the Summit)
• All Ages
• Sunday 10:00-11:00am
• Michael & Ellen West
• ellen_west@yahoo.com
• 423.502.2168

SUNDAY: VERSE BY VERSE (Haggai & Zechariah)

• S219 (Upstairs in the Summit)
• Sunday 11:00am-12:00 noon
• Steve & Kris Smith
• svsmith@chartertn.net
• 423.383.3781

WEDNESDAY: PRECEPT BIBLE STUDY (Daniel)

• Apex
• All Ages
• Wednesday 9:30-11:30a
• Nursery is provided as well as a Bible class for ages 4 – 7.
• Linda Smith
• jbarry10@charter.net
• 423.288.6563

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Join Leigh Sexton on Monday afternoons at 1:00 as she meets with ordinary women who have amazing stories to tell about our Extraordinary God,

Join Leigh Sexton on Monday afternoons at 1:00 as she meets with ordinary women who have amazing stories to tell about our Extraordinary God,

SUNDAY: YOUTH & ADULT VERSE BY VERSE (The Gospel of Mark) Room S213 (Upstairs in the Summit) All Ages Sunday 10:00-11:00am Michael & Ellen Westellen_west@yahoo.com423.502.2168SUNDAY: VERSE BY VERSE (Haggai & Zechariah) S219 (Upstairs in the Summit) Sunday 11:00am-12:00 noon Steve & Kris Smithsvsmith@chartertn.net423.383.3781 WEDNESDAY: PRECEPT BIBLE STUDY (Daniel) Apex All Ages Wednesday 9:30-11:30a Nursery is provided as well as a Bible class for ages 4 – 7.Linda Smithjbarry10@charter.net423.288.6563

SUNDAY: YOUTH & ADULT VERSE BY VERSE (The Gospel of Mark)

• Room S213 (Upstairs in the Summit)
• All Ages
• Sunday 10:00-11:00am
• Michael & Ellen West
• ellen_west@yahoo.com
• 423.502.2168

SUNDAY: VERSE BY VERSE (Haggai & Zechariah)

• S219 (Upstairs in the Summit)
• Sunday 11:00am-12:00 noon
• Steve & Kris Smith
• svsmith@chartertn.net
• 423.383.3781

WEDNESDAY: PRECEPT BIBLE STUDY (Daniel)

• Apex
• All Ages
• Wednesday 9:30-11:30a
• Nursery is provided as well as a Bible class for ages 4 – 7.
• Linda Smith
• jbarry10@charter.net
• 423.288.6563

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