Love for the Church (1)

God loves His church. She is precious to Him as the bride and body of Jesus Christ. So great is His love for her that He sent His Son to die for her. The church is His. He delights in her. Jehovah "loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob" (Ps. 87:2). Since God loves His church, so ought we. The church is beloved of God and precious to Him. That's what she should be to us. To love God's church means, first of all, that we love the church as the universal body of Christ....