MAKE YOURSELF READY
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Make Yourself Ready
a) Rightly understood, the bride is not an elite cadre of special Christians that only a few get to be a part of. The bride will be few in number, but this is not because only a few invitations were sent out. It is because few people choose to answer. To be a part of the bride of Christ you need to answer that call, and start following Jesus on the way He Himself has gone.
b) This time on earth is a time of engagement for Jesus Christ and His bride. They have an intense love for one another, and long to be reunited. The bride wants to be near Jesus, her heavenly bridegroom. She will do everything and anything, she will pay whatever it costs, in order to be worthy of Him and be with Him.
c) Jesus will fetch His bride as soon as she is ready. Time is short, but there is still a time of grace for the bride to prepare herself, and it’s still possible to heed the call.
d) Answering the call to be in the bride is the first step. It’s as simple as deciding, “I want to serve God with all my heart.” The way to go after this is described in Colossians 3:1-17. The bride of sets her mind on things above. The bride is patient, humble, longsuffering, and does everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. The only thing she wants is to hasten the day of His return. (2 Peter 3:12)
e) The bride of Christ is so in love that she would pay any price to put off all sin, everything that is not Christ-like. She denies all such thoughts and puts them to death (Colossians 3:5). And in this way the life of Christ can show forth in her. In this way she becomes a helper comparable to Him. With all of her very being she aches to be with Christ and knows that the way to do that is to become like Him. To become purified and cleansed as He is pure, and be transformed into divine nature like His (1 John 3:2-3). Nothing less than perfection is acceptable. Any thought, any temptation that is not pleasing to Christ is immediately put to death! Sin is not an option for her! She wants to be with her bridegroom.
f) So she becomes holy as He is holy. These are the righteous acts of the saints as described in Revelation 19:8.
1. Make Yourself Readya) Rightly understood, the bride is not an elite cadre of special Christians that only a few get to be a part of. The bride will be few in number, but this is not because only a few invitations were sent out. It is because few people choose to answer. To be a part of the bride of Christ you need to answer that call, and start following Jesus on the way He Himself has gone.
b) This time on earth is a time of engagement for Jesus Christ and His bride. They have an intense love for one another, and long to be reunited. The bride wants to be near Jesus, her heavenly bridegroom. She will do everything and anything, she will pay whatever it costs, in order to be worthy of Him and be with Him.
c) Jesus will fetch His bride as soon as she is ready. Time is short, but there is still a time of grace for the bride to prepare herself, and it’s still possible to heed the call.
d) Answering the call to be in the bride is the first step. It’s as simple as deciding, “I want to serve God with all my heart.” The way to go after this is described in Colossians 3:1-17. The bride of sets her mind on things above. The bride is patient, humble, longsuffering, and does everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. The only thing she wants is to hasten the day of His return. (2 Peter 3:12)
e) The bride of Christ is so in love that she would pay any price to put off all sin, everything that is not Christ-like. She denies all such thoughts and puts them to death (Colossians 3:5). And in this way the life of Christ can show forth in her. In this way she becomes a helper comparable to Him. With all of her very being she aches to be with Christ and knows that the way to do that is to become like Him. To become purified and cleansed as He is pure, and be transformed into divine nature like His (1 John 3:2-3). Nothing less than perfection is acceptable. Any thought, any temptation that is not pleasing to Christ is immediately put to death! Sin is not an option for her! She wants to be with her bridegroom.
f) So she becomes holy as He is holy. These are the righteous acts of the saints as described in Revelation 19:8.
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