When we turn our back on sin by repentance, and are water baptized in Jesus name for the remission (forgiveness/washing away/burial) of our sins, we have entered into a covenant with God. He promises us the gift of His Spirit, the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38) We have become His bride. We forsake all others – putting away the world with its lusts and all other gods in our life - and cleaving to Jesus. (John 3:26, 29).
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength…" - Mark 12:30
"To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he
hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" -
Ephesians 1:6-7
"I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine..." -
Song of Songs 6:3
In our covenant, we are the bride of Christ. Our
relationship is as a husband and wife.
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved
the church, and gave himself for it;" - Ephesians 5:25
"For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members
of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be
one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
church." - Ephesians 5:29-32 (John 14:20, John 15:4)
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39
KJV
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