If you have been truly born again you have a new and holy nature, and you are no longer moved towards sinful objects as you were before. The things that you once loved you now hate, and therefore you will not run after them. You can hardly understand it but so it is, that your thoughts and tastes are radically changed. You long for that very holiness which once it was irksome to hear of; and you loathe those vain pursuits which were once your delights. The man who puts his trust in the Lord sees the pleasures of sin in a new light. For he sees the evil which follows them by noting the agonies which they brought upon our Lord when He bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Without faith a man says to himself, 'This sin is a very pleasant thing, why should I not enjoy it? Surely I may eat this fruit, which looks so charming and is so much to be desired.' The flesh sees honey in the drink, but faith at once perceives that there is poison in the cup. Faith spies the snake in the grass and gives warning of it. Faith remembers death, judgment, the great reward, the just punishment and that dread word, eternity.
C.H. Spurgeon

TITLES and Names of the Church

TITLES and Names of the Church

TITLES and Names of the Church

  1. Assembly of the saints # Ps 89:7
  2. Assembly of the upright # Ps 111:1
  3. Body of Christ # Eph 1:22,23 Col 1:24
  4. Branch of God’s planting # Isa 60:21
  5. Bride of Christ # Re 21:9
  6. Church of God # Ac 20:28
  7. Church of the Living God # 1Ti 3:15
  8. Church of the first-born # Heb 12:23
  9. City of the Living God # Heb 12:22
  10. Congregation of saints # Ps 149:1
  11. Congregation of the Lord’s poor # Ps 74:19
  12. Dove # So 2:14 5:2
  13. Family in heaven and earth # Eph 3:15
  14. Flock of God # Eze 34:15 1Pe 5:2
  15. Fold of Christ # Joh 10:16
  16. General assembly of the first-born # Heb 12:23
  17. Golden candlestick # Re 1:20
  18. God’s building # 1Co 3:9
  19. God’s husbandry # 1Co 3:9
  20. God’s heritage # Joe 3:2 1Pe 5:3
  21. Habitation of God # Eph 2:22
  22. Heavenly of Jerusalem # Ga 4:26 Heb 12:22
  23. Holy city # Re 21:2
  24. Holy mountain # Zec 8:3
  25. Holy hill # Ps 15:1
  26. House of God # 1Ti 3:15 Heb 10:21
  27. House of the God of Jacob # Isa 2:3
  28. House of Christ # Heb 3:6
  29. Household of God # Eph 2:19
  30. Inheritance # Ps 28:9 Isa 19:25
  31. Israel of God # Ga 6:16
  32. King’s daughter # Ps 45:13
  33. Lamb’s wife # Re 19:7 21:9
  34. Lot of God’s inheritance # De 32:9
  35. Mount Zion # Ps 2:6 Heb 12:22
  36. Mountain of the Lord’s house # Isa 2:2
  37. New Jerusalem # Re 21:2
  38. Pillar and ground of the truth # 1Ti 3:15
  39. Sanctuary of God # Ps 114:2
  40. Spiritual house # 1Pe 2:5
  41. Spouse of Christ # So 4:12 5:1
  42. Sought out, a city not forsaken # Isa 62:12
  43. Temple of God # 1Co 3:16,17
  44. Temple of the Living God # 2Co 6:16
  45. Vineyard # Jer 12:10 Mt 21:41