Ephesians 5:30-33

(Ephesians 5:30-33)

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.  Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

The big secret is not easy to understand.『 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 big secret. In other words, there is a hidden meaning behind these words. Most people judge the standard of salvation to be forgiven. What is done on earth is salvation. "Think of living on this earth and dying and going to heaven" is just an Old Testament belief. In a conversation between Jesus and Martha, Martha said, "I believe in dying and resurrecting at the end."

Today, Jesus came to this world, died on the cross, and resurrected in three days. It is salvation to believe that those who are in Christ are also resurrected. It has not yet been resurrected, but if one believes that a believer will die and rise again, that faith is not a saved faith. The word “saved by water and the Holy Spirit” is not a story of the future, but of the present. Because rebirth is the resurrection.

The resurrection will take place first on this earth, and will be the kingdom of God. In Luke 17:20-21『 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 』.

In John 17:21-23『 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 』 God is in Christ and Christ is in the saints. The phrase "the kingdom of God is in you" means that God, the Son, and the saints are one with the Holy Spirit. This is what happens when you live in this world. Those who do not believe what has been done on this earth cannot be saved.

『 the world may know 』 Here, the resurrection is to be done in the world. The resurrection is not done in the dead, but in the world, the world knows. Salvation was compared to marriage in Ephesians 5:30-32 and expressed in the relationship between Christ and the Church. Marriage between men and women is not a salvation itself, but a sense of salvation through a marriage relationship.

In Genesis 2:22-24『And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 』 This content originally brought Eve out of one body (Adam), but she said to be one again.

So is the relationship between Christ and the Church. The church here means the saint. 『You are the Church』. You who speak here mean the spirit. The spirit in the saints originally became one with Christ, and the spirits fell apart because they sinned against God. So, it means to go into Christ again and become one. This is the secret before the creation. Before the creation of God, Satan and the spirits who followed them wanted to become like God, leaving God, and they sinned against God. So, God trapped the spirits in the dirt.

Now that the spirits are resurrected, they become one again in Christ. Being one does not happen when the body dies, but when the body is alive. When you realize that you have left the kingdom of God, repent, and believe that the body of the flesh (the old man) died on the cross with Jesus, God will be born again as the body of the spirit, and the spirit will rise and become one in Christ. . This is what the apostle Paul explains as a parable of marriage. Through what happened in the Garden of Eden, we must realize the things of the kingdom of God. That is why Jesus prays in John 17.

Salvation is not the essence of sin. Salvation is one with Christ. So, the apostle Paul explains the words of Genesis 2:20-22 in Ephesians 5:30-32. The Apostle Paul says this is a secret. Salvation is eternal life. Originally, when we were with God, we were eternal life. But since the spirits sinned against God, they lost eternal life. In John 17:3『And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 』 "I know" (Hebrew: Yada) means "I know" that she sleeps in a marital relationship. After all, the word "know" becomes one. In Genesis 4:1, "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD."

Being one is, "As the Father is in me and I am in the Father, they are all united so that they are in us." This is eternal life, resurrection, and regeneration. Resurrection is born again. Jesus is the fruit of the first resurrection, and the born again believers are the next fruit. Salvation is not a resurrection of the body, but a resurrection of the spirit. In order for the spirit to survive, it must wear the body of the spirit. In 1 Corinthians 15:44『 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 』 This happens while the born again is living on this earth. This is salvation. Here, the body of the flesh represents the old man (soul) from the body.

Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son. The prodigal son regrets leaving his father's house and shows that he is returning as a dead person. However, human beings are not realizing that they have left God. The prodigal son returned to his father's house. My father gave a feast. Salvation is to return to where you left. When the prodigal son returned to his father's house, he became dead and returned. The Saints must die and return with Jesus.

When the fresh body (old man) dies, God will clothe the body of the Spirit. So, wearing the body of the spirit, the spirit is resurrected and returns to God. It is the spirit that returns to God. The spirit is wearing the body of the spirit and going back. The Apostle Paul described the body of the spirit as a dwelling place in heaven. In 2 Corinthians 5:1-3『 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.』

When the body is alive, the saints have two bodies. It is the body of the flesh from the parents and the spirit from God. We cannot see the body of the spirit with the eyes of the flesh. The spirit body is in Christ. Although there is a body, the body of the spirit is the true body, and the body is only a tool necessary to establish the kingdom of God in this world. The body is alive, but the old man (soul: fresh body), who comes from the body, is dead. God is telling you to put on the body of the spirit when you are alive in this world. It is born again. This is salvation. In 1 Corinthians 15:44, the body of the flesh refers to the old man originating from the body, not the body. In Romans 6:6『 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.』