I wrote a booklet more than 40 years ago on the basic doctrines of the Bible. And what we're doing right now is one of those basic doctrines of the Bible. And here is a little old marked up, messed up book. The doctrine of the devil is in there. I'll tell you. And by the way, if you want one of these, email me and I'll I'll send this to you and you can download it. The doctrines are Christian doctrine. What doctrine is? The Bible, God, the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the doctrine of the devil, the doctrine of hell, the doctrine of heaven, the doctrine of man, his creation and fall, the doctrine of sin, the doctrine of repentance, the doctrine of salvation, the doctrine of the atonement, the doctrine of the new birth, the doctrine of justification, the doctrine of two natures of the saved, the doctrine of security of the believer, the doctrine of adoption, the doctrine of the church. The doctrine of baptism, the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, the doctrine of prayer, the doctrine of the resurrection, the doctrine of church discipline, the doctrine of New Testament giving, the doctrine of the return of Jesus Christ. These are the doctrines that I wrote about so many years ago because if you don't understand If you don't get this down, the Bible is somebody else's letters. Somebody else's mail. You can get a lot of things out of the Bible. Salvation is very important. Baptism is very important. The Lord's Supper. Baptism. And the church. The doctrine of the church is very important. Let me get over here to the church. I can find it. All right. That's number 20. Get there in a moment. My notes are scribbled all over this thing, by the way. It's been used, like the books I read. The doctrine of the church, we're going to look at it in Ephesians 3.21, Matthew 16 and 18, Matthew 28, 18-20, Revelation 9, 11-16. These are all very special scriptures relating to the church. Our Lord is called Jehovah, the one who shall become. He's also called Adonai, Adonai HaAdonaiim, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. The Lord of Lords and King of Kingdoms, page 14 in Gesenius, page 8 in Davidson, page 16 in Brown, Driver and Briggs, all talk about this name, Adonai. Now Adonai in the Old Testament of Deuteronomy talks about the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. But in the New Testament, in Revelation the 19th chapter, if I can go find there in this book, Revelation the 19th chapter, we're going to go look at that. It's very important when we get into Scripture here. Ephesians 3.21, to glory be to God through the church, Jesus Christ through the church throughout all ages. That church will bring him glory throughout all ages because it's proved, she's proved herself faithful. The word church means ecclesia, once called out. The simplest form of a church is a marionette. Matthew 18 and verse 20. What's the simplest form of church? Where one or two be gathered together, I'll be with you. And who organized the church? Was it Peter? Was it John? Who was it? Jesus. Jesus. Who was the church founded upon? Jesus, not Peter. Who prepared the material for the church? John the Baptist. John the Baptist, as he prepared, he said, I must, John the Dipper, he said, I must, he must increase, I must decrease. And of course, finally, he was beheaded. Has there ever been a time in history since Jesus called out a church at the seashore of Galilee that that church did not exist? No. I'll be with you always, even to the end of the world. The gate to hell shall not prevail against you, Matthew 16, 18, Matthew 28, 18 through 20. All churches, we get the word church, we use that as a universal term, but the church is not universal. The church is always physical, physical and local in nature. Churches are real groups of people, very small, sometimes large. Did the Lord give His church a name? Did the Lord give His church a name? He called it His bride. In what way are the words church used? Now, King James Bible was translated for the Church of England. I want you to understand that. The Church of England believed in the Universal Church because the Church of England came right out of Catholicism which believed in the Universal Church. And they believed that the church had a head on earth. And the head of the Church of England was Henry VIII when it was started. And then under him the Archbishop of Canterbury and of course the Catholic Church. The head of the Catholic Church was in Rome and in Constantinople too, by the way, under Constantine. They had a head, they had a place. The church, when they talk about the church, the eyes all go to Constantinople or to Rome or to England. The palace, the church. What was the church supposed to do? What kind of a job is the church supposed to have? Make disciples. Then you baptize. Excuse me. Make disciples. Then you baptize those disciples and become church members. Teaching them to guard with their lives all the things I've handed down to you. And one of those things is the doctrine of the church. There's definitely a difference between the church and the family of God, isn't there? The family of God are all the same. The church are those faithful church members of real, local, physical New Testament churches that are serving the Lord. Maybe there's one out of a hundred in those that will be part of the Bride of Christ at one time in the future. And the bride will be forever. All the saved are the family of God. The ones called out, the double-blooded ones, we might say, Jesus Christ died for all the saved, but he died in a special way for the church. And that church will rule and reign with him forever. How faithful you must be to be in the bride of Christ. The Lord's Church today is only the espoused bride of the Lord. It's only the espoused bride of the Lord. God shall be glorified in that church throughout all ages, world without end, it says. All ages, world without end. Now let's go here to the 19th chapter of the book of Revelation. Let's look at it here. A lot of people don't go there, but this is where it is. Metatate, that's what it says in Greek. After these sayings I heard something like a great and mighty shout, a vast multitude in heaven exclaiming, Hallelujah and salvation! and glory and splendor and majesty and power and dominion and might belong to our God. Because His judgments are true and righteous and He has judged and convicted and pronounced, sentenced upon the great prostitute idolatress who was corrupting and ruining and poisoning the earth with her adultery and her false doctrines. And He has imposed a penalty for the blood of His bond servants upon her. And a second time they said, hallelujah, her smoke shall descend forever and ever. And then 24 elders and the four living creatures also fell down and worshipped God. Who sits on the throne, says amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord. Then from the throne there came a voice saying, praise our God, all you bondservants of His, who fear Him. Now, I want you to see here, the bride and others are separate. They're not the same. Not everybody's in the bride. Praise our God for all the bondservants of His. You who fear Him, the small, common, and the great, the distinctest rulers. And then we see in verse number six. This is during the tribulation period on earth. The Lord is up here in heaven with his bride, being united with her, and they have a wedding week of years. Then all for eternity. Then I heard something like the shout of a vast multitude, like the boom of many pounding waves, and like the roar of many peals of thunder saying, For the Lord our God, the Almighty, the Omnipotent, the Ruler of all reigns, Adonai ha-Adonaiim. Let us rejoice, and shout for joy, and let us give Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb has come at last, and the Bride, the Church has made herself ready, middle boys. Not salvation we're talking about there, we're talking about Brideship. She hath been permitted to dress in fine linen, and dazzling white and clean, for the linen signifies the righteousness acts of the saints, the ethical conduct, the personal integrity, moral courage, and godly character of the special believers. Then the angel said to me, write, and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. We're not talking about the bride, we're talking about the guests at the wedding. Now I talked about the ten virgins in the parable in the Gospels. They weren't part of the bride. They were guests, friends of the bride. Some had made themselves ready and some hadn't. Some were just religious and some were really saved. The angel said, right and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me further, These things are true in the exact words of God. Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he stopped me and said to me, you must not, for I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers and your sisters who have held the testimony of Jesus and worship God alone. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. His life and teaching are the heart of that prophecy and that gospel. Verse number 11, now here's the diplomatic part of it. The bride is not going to have to fight anymore. When you leave this earth, you may have to fight a lot of things in this world. You know, some of you out there, maybe many of you, are not going to believe what I'm saying. They think all the saved are in the bride, but that's not true. Salvation is free and clear, but brideship takes effort, much effort, always effort. It takes diligence. all of your life diligence. I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, Luka Hippos, and he who was sitting on it called faithful and true and loyal and incorruptible and steady, and in righteousness he judges and wages war on the rebellious nations. His eyes were a flame of fire, and on his head is the name inscribed on him which no one knows and understands except himself, and this is the name Jehovah. The word Jehovah. We don't know how to say that word today. That came out of King James. How do you pronounce it? I don't know. I know Greek and Hebrew, but I don't know how to pronounce the name Jehovah. It's all consonants and no vowels. How are you going to pronounce the name Jim without a vowel? How are you going to pronounce James? How are you going to pronounce Jesus? You take out the vowels and you can't say it. No man knows but himself. He is dressed and robed and dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies of heaven dressed in fine linen dazzling white and clean followed him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword, his word, with which he may strike down the nations and he will rule them with a rod of iron and he will retread the winepress of the fierce wrath of God the Almighty. El Shaddai, in judgment and rebellious world. And on His robe and on His side, He has a name inscribed, Adonai Ha'Adonaiim in Hebrew. King of kings and Lord of lords. Deuteronomy 10, 17 is where it comes from. Beautiful, beautiful. Matthew 16, 18. Adonai means pillar or foundation. Matthew 16, 18, Matthew 28, 18-20. Jehovah was the rock that followed Israel. Jehovah was the rock in the wilderness that followed Israel and provided for them. Jesus is that rock that that church is built upon. Jacob, a pillar before the temple. Jacob is called, he shall establish. and Boaz is in his might." 1 Kings 7.21, 2 Chronicles 3.17. Now let's read this most beautiful verse. I've heard, I've seen books written on this verse. This verse, let alone a sermon. Kai and Christo, Esu, Es pasas tas, geneas, tu ionas toniona, amen. That's the last verse here, part of that verse, it means the ultimate expression of Olam or eternity. And then it says truly at the end of it. Alto, to him, dative singular masculine third person pronoun, to him the The glory. Christ and His Church will be inseparable for all eternal ages. Do you want to be part of that? It's going to cost you something. It is. Your salvation costs Jesus everything. But if you're going to take it all back one of these days, To whom be the glory, in te ecclesia, in the church. The same church as the body of Christ. That same church is the one that will be with him intimately forever. That church means one's called out. Are you the called? We know that God calls all men to salvation. Some come, some do not. But we know that God calls again. The Bible leads you to one place and that is scriptural baptism in the church. That's where the Bible leads you. And the service. In the church and Chi conjunction even also here. It's more than a conjunction. Page 208. It tells you it's also a cumulative particle. Assembly in the church even in Christ. Jesus. In Christ Jesus. This is what we call a hymn diety. It's two for one. Figure of speech. In the church and in Christ Jesus. Unto, ace, extension and limitation of the thought of verbal act in page 119 in the lexicon. In all, pausas, tas, geneas. In all generations. In Generation Plum, the church wasn't back here. The church wasn't here. The church wasn't here. The church wasn't here. The church wasn't here. The church isn't here. The church isn't there. The church was started at the seashores of Galilee. But now, in all the ages to come, and not in this age, not in this age, not in this age, not in this age, not in this age, but in all the ages from this period of time onward, Christ will be glorified in his church. Oligeneus, the generations. That means to generate. This is where we get our word Genesis from. The word Genesis in Hebrew is Barashith. The word Genesis in Greek means beginnings and generations. Barashith means page 88, Bara, in, Barachith, in all, in beginnings, in the beginnings, Rosh. Rosh is the root there, page 100, 912. And then that little tau on the end of that, that is a feminine plural in Old Hebrew. Now if you look in the lexicon, it'll say that it's a singular, but it's not a singular, it's an Old Hebrew plural. It means in beginnings. In the book of Genesis it says, in beginnings he had created God, the heavens and the earth. In beginnings he had created God, the heavens, the uplifted area, all the universe, and then he took the earth and placed it in exactly the right place. God. In John 1-1 it says, N-R-K-A-H-O-L-O-G-O-S-K-I-H-O-L-O-G-O-S-A-M-E-T-H-E-O-S-K-I-H-O-L-O-G-O-S-A-M-E-T-H-E-O-S. In beginning there, singular. N-R-K. Locke singular familon. Preposition in. Page 137. In beginnings. Kept on being Jehovah. That word is Jehovah. And Jehovah kept on being in several compartments of Godhead. Even also the Word of Jehovah kept on being God. Here we see all this. We see the glory of God. We see the power of God. We see the power of God to save lives. We see the power of God to change lives. We see the power of God working through His Spirit in people's lives to do things that they couldn't do. otherwise. Living when they shouldn't even live. How many times have you seen people's lives saved, but were they saved for nothing or something? If you're saved in this world, God's going to leave you one place in New Testament churches. He's going to leave you to serve Him. He's going to want to make a missionary out of you, a personal missionary. First of all, you're missionaries to your husband or wife and to your children, and then to the whole world. As it says in Matthew 28, after you've been cast out, it says in King James, go ye therefore. But it says after you've been scattered, make disciples. Baptizing those as habitual learners must they taste their disciples. And then to reign. teaching them to guard with their lives all things I've handed down to you. These truths I hand to you. Maybe you agree with me, maybe you don't. But my job is not to teach you what you want to hear, but teach you what the Bible teaches. If you reject that, it's up to you. If you accept it, Follow it. Father, we pray, we thank you for this message. We thank you for all the blessings you give to us. And please, Father, use your word wherever it goes, to touch lives wherever they be, whatever the nation under the sun. I pray. Father, please forgive me where I fail you. Please use your word. Touch your students' lives, those that love you. those that want to know about you. In Jesus' name I pray.