Comments on: The Pursuit and Christ’s Love for the Church http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/ Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ashley Keen http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-6862 Ashley Keen Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:00:30 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-6862 I think God must have known that about me when he sovereignly chose to put my birth in 1985 rather than AD 5. ;) I think God must have known that about me when he sovereignly chose to put my birth in 1985 rather than AD 5. ;)

]]> By: Ashley Keen http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-1811 Ashley Keen Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:38:36 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-1811 I think God must have known that about me when he sovereignly chose to put my birth in 1985 rather than AD 5. ;) I think God must have known that about me when he sovereignly chose to put my birth in 1985 rather than AD 5. ;)

]]> By: Chris http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-1808 Chris Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:42:50 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-1808 Could thing you didn't live over 2,000 years ago in Palestine! Could thing you didn’t live over 2,000 years ago in Palestine!

]]> By: Ashley Keen http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-1807 Ashley Keen Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:41:10 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-1807 Good Stuff, Perry! That and I don't think I'd be too open to some guy walking up and randomly saying "Follow me." ;) Good Stuff, Perry!

That and I don’t think I’d be too open to some guy walking up and randomly saying “Follow me.” ;)

]]> By: Chris http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-1806 Chris Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:43:18 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-1806 You're right Perry. Great stuff! I was just making an implicit observation. You're right tha we can't pursue as Christ did the Church, because I don't have prevenient grace (stated above). I think though there is lesson to be learned, but you're right that they are not completely one in the same. You’re right Perry. Great stuff! I was just making an implicit observation. You’re right tha we can’t pursue as Christ did the Church, because I don’t have prevenient grace (stated above).

I think though there is lesson to be learned, but you’re right that they are not completely one in the same.

]]> By: Perry http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-1803 Perry Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:53:46 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-1803 Chris, Whereas I am usually in agreement with your posts I must take opposition here. I think you might be patching together a complex of scriptures to make an argument that scripture itself does not make. Yes, true, we are dead in our trespasses before God awakens our hearts and makes us able to seek after Him. True, without grace we could never love the Lord and yes, the physical marriage on earth pictures the spiritual marriage between Christ and His church. I take issue, though, when you make the connection that we are to pursue a wife as Christ pursued His. We are to love our wives as Christ loves the church in that we are to sacrifice all for her but the nature of that love has key differences. Christ "made" us love Him, not out of an act of brute force but out of an act of love so that we could better know and enjoy His glory. In physical relationships though love cannot be forced. The capability exists for a man to love a woman and vice verse whereas it isn't within out ability to love God on our own merit. While the anaology of Christ's love for the church makes it clear that there is a parallel love between the Lord and His church and the love husbands have for their wives, the nature of the love and how it is sought is unique to each. The difference is that one can pursue another, say a man pursuing a woman, but that man can never make the woman love him as Christ "makes", or even better "enables", us to love Him. In the pursuit of another person there comes a point where, if love dosen't exist, it cannot be force nor should it for the health of the pursuer and especially the pursuee. Praise the Lord that He has enabled us to love Him and praise the Lord that He, out of His love, has given us women to engage in relationships on this earth to mirror His love for us to another. I pray that the Lord would give us patience as we seek for that person on this earth and that our pursuits would be edifying to His glory for the purpose that He instituted marriage. P.S. Poteet Chris,

Whereas I am usually in agreement with your posts I must take opposition here. I think you might be patching together a complex of scriptures to make an argument that scripture itself does not make.

Yes, true, we are dead in our trespasses before God awakens our hearts and makes us able to seek after Him. True, without grace we could never love the Lord and yes, the physical marriage on earth pictures the spiritual marriage between Christ and His church.

I take issue, though, when you make the connection that we are to pursue a wife as Christ pursued His. We are to love our wives as Christ loves the church in that we are to sacrifice all for her but the nature of that love has key differences. Christ “made” us love Him, not out of an act of brute force but out of an act of love so that we could better know and enjoy His glory. In physical relationships though love cannot be forced. The capability exists for a man to love a woman and vice verse whereas it isn’t within out ability to love God on our own merit.

While the anaology of Christ’s love for the church makes it clear that there is a parallel love between the Lord and His church and the love husbands have for their wives, the nature of the love and how it is sought is unique to each. The difference is that one can pursue another, say a man pursuing a woman, but that man can never make the woman love him as Christ “makes”, or even better “enables”, us to love Him. In the pursuit of another person there comes a point where, if love dosen’t exist, it cannot be force nor should it for the health of the pursuer and especially the pursuee.

Praise the Lord that He has enabled us to love Him and praise the Lord that He, out of His love, has given us women to engage in relationships on this earth to mirror His love for us to another. I pray that the Lord would give us patience as we seek for that person on this earth and that our pursuits would be edifying to His glory for the purpose that He instituted marriage.

P.S. Poteet

]]> By: Ben http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-1789 Ben Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:49:37 +0000 http://www.imperishableinheritance.com/2006/the-pursuit-and-christs-love-for-the-church/#comment-1789 Interesting. I can see that application. Thanks for sharing that. Interesting. I can see that application. Thanks for sharing that.

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