Typology Lesson 15
Types of the local Church in the New Testament
There are three types of the local church that we need to look at
in the New Testament.
1. The human is
a type of the local church.
(1 Corinthians
12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so
also is Christ.)
to question 1.
A. This type teaches
that as the has members,
yet is one, so the
local church has many members, yet is local
church.
(1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.)
to question 1A.
B. This type teaches
that each member of the body, even the feeble ones, are ,
so is each member in the local church.
(1 Corinthians 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be
more feeble, are necessary:)
to question 1B.
C. This type teaches
that there should be no divisions in the body; but that the members should have the same one
for another.
(1 Corinthians 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that
the members should have the same care one for another.)
to question 1C.
D. This type teaches as
the whole body is joined
together, and compacted
by that which every joint ,
according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love, so is the local church.
(Ephesians 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted
by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself
in love.)
to question 1D.
2. A is
a type of the local church.
(Ephesians
5:23-24 For the husband is the head of the
wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the
body.
24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be
to their own husbands in every thing.)
to question 2.
A. This type teaches
that as the submits to her husband, so the local church is unto
Christ.
(Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let
the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.)
to question 2A.
3. The of
an Holy Temple in the Lord is a type of the local church.
(Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto
an holy temple in the Lord:)
to question 3.
A. This type teaches
that as the building is fitly framed , so the
local church is to be fitly together.
(Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto
an holy temple in the Lord:)
to question 3A.
B. This type teaches
that when the local church is fitly framed together, all the
members working together, then God is there through the .
(Ephesians
2:21-22 In whom all the building fitly framed
together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In
whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.)
to question 3B.
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