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4161 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 135.4 (William Warren Prescott)
… Testament church has the coming of the Lord in view. All the lines of her activity and experience lead to this event. The sanctification of the disciple is …
4162 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 177.6 (William Warren Prescott)
“In the place of Christ’s visible, bodily, local, limited presence is now substituted an invisible but universal presence, in and with his body mystical. [the church], through his Holy Spirit.”
4163 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 189.2 (William Warren Prescott)
“The great office of the Spirit in the present economy is to communicate Christ to his church which is his body. And what is so truly essential of Christ as holiness? In him is no sin; whosoever abides in him sins not.”
4164 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.3 (William Warren Prescott)
3. Through this impartation of the Holy Spirit who ministers the life of Christ to his followers, the church became the body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 1:22, 23; Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 5:23 .
4165 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.5 (William Warren Prescott)
5. The fact that the husband “that loves his own wife loves himself,” and that “no man ever hated his own flesh,” is used to show the closeness of the union between Christ and his body, the church. Ephesians 5:28-30, ARV.
4166 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.6 (William Warren Prescott)
6. The growth of the body, the church, is dependent upon this union with Christ, the Head. Ephesians 4:15, 16 .
4167 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.7 (William Warren Prescott)
7. So complete is the identification of Christ with the church, his body, that the church bears his name. 1 Corinthians 12:12 .
4168 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.8 (William Warren Prescott)
8. When Christ dwells in his body, the church, by the Holy Spirit, the decisions made concerning sin and righteousness are accepted in heaven. John 20:22, 23; Matthew 16:19; 18:15-18 .
4169 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.9 (William Warren Prescott)
… the church, which is his body and fullness, is also called ‘the Christ.’ ‘For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many …
4170 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 219.1 (William Warren Prescott)
“Christ has made provision that his church shall be a transformed body, illumined with the light of heaven, possessing the glory of Immanuel.”- Testimonies for the Church 8:19 .
4171 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 219.2 (William Warren Prescott)
… , the church ‘to be head over all things.’ He is supreme in the church as well as in the rest of the universe; and the church is ‘his body,’ in which all the wealth and the …
4172 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 219.3 (William Warren Prescott)
… the body of his church. While that divine body survives and must, multitudes of churches have so shut out the Spirit from rule and authority and supremacy …
4173 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 220.1 (William Warren Prescott)
… church! The Head over all things, the Lord of the created universe, he and none less or lower is the Head of redeemed humanity. For the church ‘is his body’ (this …
4174 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 221.1 (William Warren Prescott)
… mystical body, which is the church.”
4175 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 221.4 (William Warren Prescott)
… mystical body, the church.”
4176 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 222.1 (William Warren Prescott)
… the church as a whole that is to the body of regenerated believers, and to every member of that body according to his measure. The sin of sacerdotalism is, that …
4177 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 222.2 (William Warren Prescott)
… the church which is Christ’s body.”
4178 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 222.3 (William Warren Prescott)
… mystical body, the church. As the Father revealed himself through the Son, so the Son by the Holy Spirit now reveals himself through the church; as Christ was …
4179 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 223.1 (William Warren Prescott)
… his body’s sake, which is the church.’ Colossians 1:24. In other words, the church, as the complement of her Lord, must have a life experience and a death experience …
4180 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 226.1 (William Warren Prescott)
He establishes our fellowship with the Head of the church, and through him with one another. All blessing in the body is mutual, and the worship which is ordained to maintain and increase that blessing is likewise mutual.”