Christ purchased the church with his own blood, and it's his church, not ours. The church's purpose is to evangelize, educate, edify, exhort, and present a clean, consecrated, and cherished church to God. Satan can cripple, confuse, and contaminate the church, but he cannot conquer it. God's promise to the church is that he will present it to himself a glorious church, holy and without blemish.
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