Christ's Incarnation: refs. include Witness Lee and Watchman Nee

God’s Desire to Get Married Motivated Him to Become Incarnated

Epistles

In his Epistles the Apostle Paul realized and clearly conveyed to the believers that their relationship with Christ was not one merely of creature to Creator, of servant to Master, or even one between friends, but a marriage relationship.

Romans 7:2-4 For the married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law regarding the husband. So then if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man. So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that you might be joined to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

1 Corinthians 6:16-17 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For He says, “The two shall be one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:25-32 Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word, that He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish. In the same way the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his own wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church, because we are members of His Body. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.

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