Eph 5:27 A Church With Out Spot Or Wrinkle

1Co 5:1     It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife.
  You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.   For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.
  In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,  I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus .  Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?      Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.   First of all God has called us to sanctification to righteous living , to be holy as your father in heaven is holy .  Eph 5:27 ASV - that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.   Salvation is an on going walk ,it does not come over night . And the only way it will come is by being totally repentant in your heart .  When we were a child we thought as a child , but God is demanding that his children grow up into his righteousness .  Jesus said no man when he lights a lamp he hide it from sight. And what is the light Jesus is speaking of here
Light in the   Greek: phos

Light, Noun, and Verb (Bring To, Give), Lighten:
akin to phao, "to give light" (from roots pha--, and phan--, expressing "light as seen by the eye," and, metaphorically, as "reaching the mind," whence phaino, "to make to appear," phaneros, "evident," etc.); cp. Eng., "phosphorus" (lit., "light-bearing"). "Primarily light is a luminous emanation, probably of force, from certain bodies, which enables the eye to discern form and color. Light requires an organ adapted for its reception (Mat 6:22). Where the eye is absent, or where it has become impaired from any cause, light is useless. Man, naturally, is incapable of receiving spiritual light inasmuch as he lacks the capacity for spiritual things, 1Cr 2:14. Hence believers are called 'sons of light,' Luk 16:8, not merely because they have received a revelation from God, but because in the New Birth they have received the spiritual capacity for it.
We are to cast down every vain imagining , these are also strongholds of our mind . The bible says God can tempt no man ,but when we are tempted we are lead away by the lust of our flesh .
So satan is waiting to put those vain thoughts and everything else contrary to Gods word in front of you to draw you away.  1Co 10:13 ASV - There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Jas 1:13 ASV - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:
Jas 1:14 ASV - but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Casting down in the greek is the same as to destroy .    This walk with Christ will cost you your very life in your carnal nature, the works of your flesh ,       By the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;     We must see that the only way to bring us to the father was for Christ to present himself a sacrifice for the many .   The only way for us to stand in that holy place before the father is to present our self a sacrifice unto God.   It is called a new and living way

Greek: metanoia

Repent, Repentance:
"afterthought, change of mind, repentance," corresponds in meaning to A, No. 1, and is used of "repentance" from sin or evil, except in Hbr 12:17, where the word "repentance" seems to mean, not simply a change of Isaac's mind, but such a change as would reverse the effects of his own previous state of mind. Esau's birthright-bargain could not be recalled; it involved an irretrievable loss.

As regards "repentance" from sin,

(a) the requirement by God on man's part is set forth, e.g., in Mat 3:8; Luk 3:8; Act 20:21; 26:20;

(b) the mercy of God in giving "repentance" or leading men to it is set forth, e.g., in Act 5:31; 11:18; Rom 2:4; 2Ti 2:25. The most authentic mss. omit the word in Mat 9:13; Mar 2:17, as in the RV.
Heb 12:17 ASV - For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father,     though he sought it diligently with tears.     This is something that needs to be addressed as to who received what as far as the blessing ,  we must see here first as concerning the type and shadow here.  Jesus fulfilled the old testament with his blood so the old law was fulfilled into the new testament Jesus fulfilled it.

Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  Esau was a type of the old law that was passing away .    Gal 4:24 ASV - Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
Gal 4:25 ASV - Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.    The children could not look upon Moses because his face shown he was transformed into that being , just as Jesus at the mount of transfiguration .  And both were up on the mountain for forty days and nights fasting and praying for this , seeking God .   The number forty being  Probation, trials and testing  .     Heb 5:8 ASV - though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;    He was the son of God in his deity and he was the son of man in his sacrifice.    Jesus was and is the WAY he has shown us the father and what we are required to do to receive our inheritance .   John had to come that is why Jesus said  Luk 7:28 ASV - I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there is none greater than John: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of God is greater than he.     John brought in the new dispensation of grace , he brought the gift repentance to a lost generation.  Heb 12:13 ASV - and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
Heb 12:14 ASV - Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
John was the forerunner for Christ and with out a change of mind no man will see the Lord .    
 Sanctification  in the  Greek: hagiasmos

Holiness, Holy, Holily:
translated "holiness" in the AV of Rom 6:19, 22; 1Th 4:7; 1Ti 2:15; Hbr 12:14, is always rendered "sanctification" in the RV. It signifies

(a) separation to God, 1Cr 1:30; 2Th 2:13; 1Pe 1:2;

(b) the resultant state, the conduct befitting those so separated, 1Th 4:3, 4, 7, and the four other places mentioned above. "Sanctification" is thus the state predetermined by God for believers, into which in grace He calls them, and in which they begin their Christian course and so pursue it. Hence they are called "saints" (hagioi).
See SANCTIFICATION.
Jesus said for us to be Holy as your father in heaven is Holy , God has given us the gift of repentance through his calling to us , but just as Esau we have to make the choice to repent with an honest heart the good heart that receives the true seed of God the precious word of God .
We are made of the earth just as Adam , so when the seed is planted in our hearts of flesh the dirt
it takes on the the promise of regeneration .
Mar 4:26 ASV - And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;  

Jhn 12:24 ASV - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.  The word of God is the very life of God ,  and as this verse says it is a book of paper and ink and it abides alone until man repents and takes this word and puts it deep in his heart he has no sanctification to follow.   The life is the light of man   Jhn 3:21 ASV - But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.


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1Co 15:36 ASV - Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
1Co 15:37 ASV - and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;
1Co 15:38 ASV - but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
 Rom 8:11 ASV - But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Mat 10:39 ASV - He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:25 ASV - For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.   
Life in Greek: psuchen airo

Doubt (Be In, Make To), Doubtful, Doubting:
lit., "to raise the breath, or to lift the soul," signifies "to hold in suspense," RV of Jhn 10:24 (AV, "make us to doubt"), suggestive of "an objective suspense due to lack of light" (Warfield), through a failure of their expectations, rather than, subjectively, through unbelief. The meaning may thus be, "How long dost Thou raise our expectations without satisfying them?"  And just as Adam we became a living soul, and Jesus was a life giving spirit .  God gave life to our flesh or our soul which is our mind ,will and emotions .   And the life of God is the Zoe of God his complete life in us. 
Tit 3:5 ASV - not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
This word is the washing of our regeneration into newness of life.  Jas 1:21 ASV - Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.  The word made flesh and dwelled amoung us he is our example he is the pattern which we conform to .  Yes he was the son of God in his diety , but he was the son of man in his flesh . He learned obedience through the things which he suffered.
And we will walk his walk we will take our cross and walk in his obedience ,  everything Christ went through we will do in the spirit .  Jhn 1:13 ASV - who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.     God is not interested in our flesh man he is looking for the fruit of Jesus in us,  he has called us to be sons .  

Regeneration in the  Greek: palingenesia

Regeneration:
"new birth" (palin, "again," genesis, "birth"), is used of "spiritual regeneration," Tts 3:5, involving the communication of a new life, the two operating powers to produce which are "the word of truth," Jam 1:18; 1Pe 1:23, and the Holy Spirit, Jhn 3:5, 6; the loutron, "the laver, the washing," is explained in Eph 5:26, "having cleansed it by the washing (loutron) of water with the word."

The new birth and "regeneration" do not represent successive stages in spiritual experience, they refer to the same event but view it in different aspects. The new birth stresses the communication of spiritual life in contrast to antecedent spiritual death; "regeneration" stresses the inception of a new state of things in contrast with the old; hence the connection of the use of the word with its application to Israel, in Mat 19:28. Some regard the kai in Tts 3:5 as epexegetic, "even;" but, as Scripture marks two distinct yet associated operating powers, there is not sufficient ground for this interpretation.
 

 Easu could not find a place of repentance in his heart,  Easu represents a lot of people today he was bitter and finding no place of forgiveness for his brother .    Heb 12: 17  the words( in his father) are not in the original writings.  It says he could find no change of mind = repent .  Mal 1:3 ASV - but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Rom 9:13 ASV - Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.    Esau was a type of the children of the old law , stubborn and stiff necked .   metaphorically Esau representing man today he lost his inheritance because he could not recieve the new way .   Heb 10:20 ASV - by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;  
John spoke of the light coming into man  ,   Jhn 1:9 ASV - There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.
 Luk 8:15 ASV - And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luk 8:16 ASV - And no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but putteth it on a stand, that they that enter in may see the light.

 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.     And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.    Now we know that this is a spiritual exercise ,  its about our carnal man .
Please see when we come into this salvation walk its all about obedience to the New and the passing of the old.  Adam gave mankind the curse and Jesus is a life giving spirit.   Jesus died once and for all the deeds our flesh is a enemy to God .    Gal 5:16 ASV - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 ASV - For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:19 ASV - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 ASV - idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
Gal 5:21 ASV - envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Greek: olethros

Destroy, Destroyer, Destruction, Destructive:
"ruin, destruction," akin to A, No. 6, always translated "destruction," is used in 1Cr 5:5, of the effect upon the physical condition of an erring believer for the purpose of his spiritual profit; in 1Th 5:3; 2Th 1:9, of the effect of the Divine judgments upon men at the ushering in of the Day of the Lord and the revelation of the Lord Jesus; in 1Ti 6:9, of the consequences of the indulgence of the flesh, referring to physical "ruin" and possibly that of the whole being, the following word apoleia (see No. 1) stressing the final, eternal and irrevocable character of the "ruin."

Heb 10:10 ASV - By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:14 ASV - For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:17 ASV - And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 ASV - Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 10:20 ASV - by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:22 ASV - let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
Heb 10:26 ASV - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

Heb 10:29 ASV - of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Rom 6:5 ASV - For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
Phl 3:10 ASV - that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Can your hear this verse can you see it in the depth Paul was writing it .   Mat 16:25 ASV - For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.   Loosing and find this life Jesus is speaking of is not your natural life, it is your spiritual life in the end .     1Co 15:35 ASV - But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?
1Co 15:36 ASV - Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.   Paul says how does a man raise again to life ?  He said you are very foolish not to see if you sow to your flesh you will die, if you sow to spiritual man in you the nature your father . That which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die !          If you do not put to death your carnal nature and the deeds of your flesh you will not enter the kingdom of God . Many are called but few are chosen ,  and when the master gives shut to the door you will stand and say open to me .    Luk 13:25 ASV - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not whence ye are;  Jesus  is saying here I do not know whose family you are from .  The man at the wedding feast   Mat 22:11 ASV - But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:

Greek: enduo
Clothe:
(Eng., "endue"), signifies "to enter into, get into," as into clothes, "to put on," e.g., Mar 1:6; Luk 8:27 (in the best mss.); 24:49 (AV, "endued"); 2Cr 5:3; Rev 1:13; 19:14.          Rom 13:14 ASV - But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
There is a perfection in Christ , man has not the ability to make this happen but the Lord does .  Yes we can and must take on the nature and character of Christ Jesus.  Jesus said if you love me you will obey my words .  Man has swallow another gospel and has taken on that apostate nature ,  we must feed on the unleavened bread of God.   There is only one gospel and it is the word of God .
 Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:43 ASV - But he said unto them, I must preach the good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also: for therefore was I sent.   Jhn 1:12 ASV - But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Jhn 1:13 ASV - who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.    You must be born again born of his spirit ,  the promise is to Repent first with a Godly sorrow and be baptized go down in your watery grave telling the world you are dieing to this earthly nature
Just as Noah when he entered the Ark       Heb 11:7 ASV - By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.   Jesus is your Ark and we must enter into him through Faith . Mose was as the word says baptized ,         1Co 10:1 ASV - For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 ASV - and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;  The Cloud being the Spirit and the Sea being his baptism .  He spiritually fulfilled this promise as a type and a shadow
1Co 10:3 ASV - and did all eat the same spiritual food;   The true manna from heaven and that is true for us and the whole word of God is the true manna .   Heb 4:2 ASV - For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.


Rom 13:14 ASV - But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.  

Mat 22:12 ASV - and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13 ASV - Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Mat 22:14 ASV - For many are called, but few chosen.

Luk 13:26 ASV - then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets;
Luk 13:27 ASV - and he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.  God has called us to holy and santified , we have all heard of the Luke warm and the hot and Gods response to this.     Rev 3:16 ASV - So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.       Spew in the   Greek: emeo
Spew (AV, Spue):
"to vomit" (cp. Eng., "emetic"), is used in Rev 3:16, figuratively of the Lord's utter abhorrence of the condition of the church at Laodicea.  A church with out spot or wrinkle

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:   This word is to you not the man next door ! God is calling You to be holy a separated from this world .