We have the cream of the crop here this afternoon, which I appreciate,

whether many or whether few, the Word of God is still true.

It's always good.

And we're talking about the purification of the Church of Jesus Christ.

This is the Blessed Hope. It says, conference.

Every man who has this hope in himself does what?

Purifies himself. Why?

Because he's going to meet the Holy One, who has commanded us to be holy as I am holy.

And it's not a shallow thing to enter into that sanctuary in heaven.

Let me tell you.

I'm going to be primarily focusing on a passage of Scripture in Ephesians 5, 26, and 27

does not generally recognize as a rapture passage, but it is.

That he might sanctify and cleanse her, the church,

with the labor of the water in the word.

That's literal translation.

In other words, the word of God is like a bath

that will be cleansing to us, that he might

present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing,

but that she should be holy and without blemish. Christodom today is blemished, let me assure you. It's unholy in many respects,

and sad to say, many Christians are caught away in the confusion of these final days.

It's evident from the scriptures that the purification of the church actually begins at our initial

salvation.

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