A Jewish Wedding
and
Christ's Bride-The Church

New City Church Message _MZ-NCC

• The Jewish Wedding:
  
  • The Ketubah, Betrothal
  • Payment of the purchase price
  • Bride set apart (sanctified)
  • Bridegroom departs to Father's House
  • Prepares room addition
  • Bride prepares for imminent return
  • Surprise gathering
  • Huppa, wedding
    
    
• Christ's Bride - The Church
  
  • Covenant established
    I Corinthians 11:25 — After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
    
    
  • Purchase price
    I Corinthians 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
    I Corinthians 6:20 — For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body: and in your spirit, which are God's.
    
    
  • Bride set apart
    Ephesians 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
    Ephesians 5:26 — That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
    Ephesians 5:27 — That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
    I Corinthians 1:2 — Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
    Hebrews 10:10 — By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
    
    
  • Reminded of the covenant
    I Corinthians 11:25 — After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
    I Corinthians 11:26 — For as often as ye eat this bread and dring this cup, ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come.
    
    
  • Bridegroom left for the Father's house
    See →John 14:1-5
    
    
  • Escort with Him to gather His bride
    I Thessalonians 4:16 — For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arcangle, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
    I Thessalonians 4:17 — The we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.