• The saved relationship is viewed in several different ways in the New Testament. Each figure emphasizes the headship of Christ and the subjection of the saved.
    • Acts 2:47
    • John 3:5
    • I Corinthians 12:13
    • Galatians 5:4
    • Ephesians 2:21
    • John 10:4
  • Christ is:
    • Head of the church (Ephesians 1:22
    • King of the kingdom (Acts 2:36
    • Head of the body (Colossians 1:18
    • Son over the house (Hebrews 3:6
    • High Priest in the temple (Hebrews 3:1
    • Shepherd of the sheepfold (John 10:14
  • There is one:
    • Kingdom
    • Body
    • House
    • Temple
    • Sheepfold
    • How many churches?
  • The same ones who:
    • Are citizens in the kingdom
    • Are members of the body
    • …
  • You are not:
    • In the kingdom unless you have been born (John 3:5.
    • I Corinthians 12:13
  • Each is depicting the saved relationship
    • Therefore one gets into the church the same way he gets into the kingdom or into the house or into the temple or into the sheepfold or into the body.
    • Once cannot be saved unless he is in the one body.
    • The only way one can get into the body is to be baptized into it (I Corinthians 12:13.
    • Therefore one is baptized into the saved relationship.