The Church, by any other name still as sweet and sweeter still

Sermon on the Belgic Confession article 29 - The Marks of the True Church - Lords Day February 23rd, 2025 - Trinity Reformed Church
The Church gathers together as an organized visible body. This is also composed of unbelievers. The invisible church is composed of true believers in Christ Jesus. Matthew 16:18 Christ uses the term Church for the first time. ekklēsia. the church is like a building. We call the place we meet "the church" - Jesus doesn't mean the structure He means the people. You are Gods field (the harvest). Building implies growth, unity, building each other up. 1 Peter 2:5. The church is described as a temple of God, 1 Cornthians 3:16. The Jerusalem of God. Galatians 4:26 - the Mother of us all. Rev 21:9 . Heb. 12:22-23, The church is the spiritual counterpart to the OT Jerusalem. A pillar and ground of the truth. It propagates (holds up) the truth. 1 Tim 3:15
The Body of Christ Eph 1:22, Col 1:18, 1 Corinth 1:27,

Galatians 4:26 (NKJV) but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.

1 Timothy 3:15 (NKJV) but if I am delayed, [I write] so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Ephesians 1:22-23 (NKJV) 22 And He put all [things] under His feet, and gave Him [to be] head over all [things] to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.