I. The Church Identified

I. The Church Identified
The Building: Ephesians 2:19-22
The Bride: Revelation 19:7-8
The Church: “Ecclesia, A Called Out Assembly.” (Ephesians 5:25)
The Church Age is also the Sixth Dispensation, alternately known as the Age of Grace. It extends from the descent of the Holy Spirit to the ascent of the Church; or the Rapture. Duration: 2000 years plus. Man's condition during this dispensation is that all the world is guilty before God (Romans 3:10-18). “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” By nature man is a sinner, “born in iniquity.” Even though all have sinned; all can be saved by believing on the Lamb of Calvary, God’s Son, and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31)
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."(John 3:16)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8) Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. " (1 John 5:13)
The Christian's responsibility during the Church Age is to win the lost.
"But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2:4)
The Church Age will end with the Rapture of the Church from a world of sin, as Scripture reveals in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:17).
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)