{"id":12298,"date":"2026-07-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=12298"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:23:29","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-the-bride-of-christ-1-loved-like-a-bride","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/sermons\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-the-bride-of-christ-1-loved-like-a-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Be the Bride of Christ &#8211; 1 Loved Like a Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Then the Lord God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Genesis 2:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Ephesians 5:32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Ephesians 5:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Romans 5:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God\u2019s word\u2026 she will be holy and without fault. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Ephesians 5:26-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>John 10:28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the Lord God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; Genesis 2:18 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ephesians 5:32 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her&nbsp;&nbsp; Ephesians 5:25 But God showed his great love for us by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[83],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12298","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-tommy-sprinkle","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/12298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12300,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/12298\/revisions\/12300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}