Friday Bible Study. June 20, 2014.
Subject: Cleansing the church by washing with water through the word.
Scriptures for this study: Eph.5:25-27
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Eph 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Eph 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
A. How did Christ love the church and gave himself up for her?
B. What does it meanà to make the church holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word
C. Compare different translations to help understand the scriptures!
1. NIV Eph 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
2. Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (KJV)
3. that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, (ASV)
D. Knowing how the church is formed and established!
1. Acts 2:1,
2. Romans 12:5,
3. Acts 2:36-42
4. Acts 2:47
5. Acts 8:35-38
6. Acts 22:16
7. 1 Peter 3:21
E. Knowing how people in the church are being kept cleansed!
1. John 17:17
2. 1 John 1:9
3. 1 John 5:6-8
1Jn 5:6 This is the one who came by water and blood-- Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only,
but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
1Jn 5:7 For there are three that testify:
1Jn 5:8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
4. Heb.9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God,
cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
5. John 4:10-11 Jesus answered her,
"If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
John 4:11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.Where can you get this living water?
6. Jn 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice,
"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Jn 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."
Jn 7:39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
May the Lord bless you and keep you always!