Christ Redeems His Bride

Notice here that Christ loved the church and gave Himself specifically for her; all those people who make up the Universal Church composed of the elect of God from every nation and time in history; those whom the Father has chosen and called to Himself based upon the sacrificial work of Christ; Christ giving Himself to suffer in their place, them in particular. Those who Christ died for, He sanctifies and cleanses them in particular with the washing of water by the word, which is a description of the work of regeneration specifically applied to all of the elect of God at the time of their conversion, which is the time of His choosing.