22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.23 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.25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish Ephesians 5 KJV
Jesus so loved the church, so He will present the church to HIMSELF, without spot and wrinkle, it is not you presenting yourself. By implication, he accepted us and called us to Himself to do a cleansing work within us for Himself, God has a target, he has a goal, He wants us Holy and without blemish.
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. Song of Solomon 4: 7
King Solomon above describing the finished and glorious church. A spotless church is the goal of God. If God initiates anything, he is well able to finish it. If that is God’s goal, He will achieve it. He cannot set a target and fail. There is nothing too hard for the Lord to do, in this regard the Lord will achieve His Goal. We are the church that the Lord is working on. The gates of Hell cannot prevail against this church. Mathew.16:18…, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it
Again, we can see God’s thoughts in the words of Paul to the Colossians, 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled {in…: or, by your mind in}22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: Colossians 1
As far as God is concerned when we receive the blood and accept the sacrifice of Jesus, God sees us as HOLY, UNBLAMEABLE and UNREPROVABLE in His sight. This is our characteristics’.
Definition of key terms:
Holy greek word agiov hagios, hag’-ee-os from hagos (an awful thing) sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated):–(most) holy (one, thing), saint. This is also taken from the root word hagnos, hag-nos’ properly, clean, i.e. (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect:–chaste, clean, pure..
Unblamable Greek word amwmov amomos, am’-o-mos unblemished (literally or figuratively):–without blame (blemish, fault, spot), faultless, unblamable.
Unreprovable Greek word . anegklhtov anegkletos, an-eng’-klay-tos ; unaccused, i.e. (by implication) irreproachable:–blameless.
You do not have to die to become a saint; Rom.1: 7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every believer is a saint by reason of the sacrifice of Jesus; you don’t have to die first before being canonized as a saint.
The house of Cornelius representing the gentile people was seen in God as clean that typifies the vision of Peter, what I have called clean do not call unclean.(Acts.10: 15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.)
At the point of redemption our spirit is sealed by the Holy Spirit,( Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,)
When something is sealed, it means it is preserved and no corruption can come into it. The Holy Spirit sealed us at redemption and nothing can touch our spirit. We are joined to the Lord and we are therefore one spirit.(1 Cor.6:17) Our spirit is married to Jesus and therefore there is no fault or blemish in our spirit now, the trouble we have is our soul realm and our physical body. This can be best understood when we look at canned food, it travels distance and nothing can come into it.
You cannot accuse a man that God has acquitted, there is no accusation that the devil brings before God that God accepts, and the devil has no legal right to accuse you, because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
Why? Because to God, in His sight you are Holy by reason of the blood of Jesus. So all you need to do is to believe into what He has done for you.