Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.
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… Up here on the screen, 1 Corinthians 12 says, Together you are the body of Christ. And each one of you is a part of it. So the church is a family, the church is a temple, the church is a body. Now, what's the benefit of being a part of the body of Christ? Romans chapter 12, there on your outline, verse 4 and 5. just as there are many parts to our bodies so it is with christ's body we're all parts of it and takes everyone to make it complete for we each have different work to do so we belong to each other and each of us needs all the other parts i could have preached the entire sermon just on this it says we're all many parts we're all unique look around nobody's like you in our church family everybody's unique we're all unique everybody's needed to make the body complete we each have different work to do. We belong to each other and we need each other. Church is far more than simply something you attend. It's a family you belong to and you need other people. You need connections in your life. First Corinthians chapter 12, verse 15. If the foot says, I'm not a part of the body because I'm not a hand, that doesn't make it any less part of the body. And if an ear says, I'm not part of the body because I'm only an ear and not an eye, would that make it any less part of the …
… when you're going through those protocols. You are the body of Christ and each one of you is a necessary part of it. There's no unnecessary part. People say, well I'm not very necessary in my church. Oh how wrong you are. If I don't use my gifts, you get hurt. If you don't use your gifts, I get hurt. So does everybody else. We all have a different role to play. Now let me pause here and review what I've said about what is the church. First I said, it's God's family that's in heaven and on earth. Some's in heaven, some's on earth. I said, it's composed of saved and baptized believers. Okay, if you're not saved, you're not baptized, you're not a part of the church. Okay, number three, they're committed to Jesus and each other. We commit to him and we commit to each other. But then there's one other fourth part, write this down. And these are people who are preparing for heaven or Christ's return. …
challenges of chapter 12 and the unfolding challenges of chapter 14. I suppose if we're going to do a series, then make sure that we keep 13 where it is, right in the middle, so as to prevent us from all kinds of lopsidedness. Father, we pray that what we don't know, you will teach us, that what we don't have, you will give us, that what we are not, that you will make us. And we ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Incidentally, in coming to these three studies in Nehemiah, I've chosen them somewhat arbitrarily, but not actually so. I've decided not to do, you know, if you like, the big passage in chapter 8, bring out the book and the Word of God, and to reinforce the place of expository preaching—not because that would not be our emphasis, but just because it's so familiar to us. And I thought I would rather take a stab at the rather naughty 13th chapter, which is before us later in the day, unless we can find a way to escape before that. But in the same way, you know, here, dealing with chapter 3 and chapter 4, we all believe together, don't we, that all Scripture is inspired by God, the perspicuity of Scripture, we believe, down to the verbs, and the adverbs, and so on. So, we believe that all Scripture is inspired, but if we're honest, we recognize that all Scripture is not equally inspiring. So, for example, you know, Chronicles ends with …
… It's the kind of membership given to us in 1 Corinthians 12. Now you are the body of Christ and individual members of it. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 27 because I am a member of the body of Christ I must be a functioning member whether I am an eye an ear or a hand as a functioning member I will give I will serve I will minister I will evangelize. I will study. I will seek to be a blessing to others. I will remember that if one member suffers, all members suffer with it. If one member is honored, all members rejoice with it. That is our commitment. That is our first pledge. next week we'll be talking about i am a unifying member first week we talked about i'm a functioning member next week we'll be talking about i am a unifying member which means because i'm here i work to create unity and not disagreements and mess all over the church get your copy of the book we're going to have these available for you to grab at church you'll be able to get it online if you order it online and they are not expensive i am a church member let's pray god would you help us be better church members of the body not just people in pews but literally functioning helpful serving praying loving members of the body of christ god thank you for fellowship Thank you for the people that have kept this church strong for 72 years. …
This is a subject especially brought before us at this time of year, and it may be well now to enlarge upon it. Now that all Christians are, in some sense or other, one, in our Lord's eyes, is plain, from various parts of the New Testament. In His mediatorial prayer for them to the Almighty Father, before His passion, He expressed His purpose that they should be one. St. Paul, in like manner, writing to the Corinthians, says, "As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. . . . . Now ye are the Body of Christ, and members in particular." To the Ephesians, he says, "There is one Body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all." And, further, it is to this one Body, regarded as one, that the special privileges of the Gospel are given. It is not that this man receives the blessing, and that man, but one and all, the whole body, as one man, one new spiritual man, with one accord, seeks and gains it. The Holy Church throughout the world, "the Bride, the Lamb's wife," is one, not many, and the elect souls are all elected in her, not in isolation. For instance; "He is our peace who hath made both [Jews and Gentiles] one, . . . to make in Himself of twain one new man." In the same Epistle, it is said, that all nations are "fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow-partakers of His promise in Christ;" and that we must "one and all come," or converge, "in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;" that as "the husband is the head of the wife," so "Christ is the Head of the Church," having "loved it and given Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word." These are a few out of many passages which connect Gospel privileges with the circumstance or condition of unity in those who receive them; the image of Christ and token of their acceptance being stamped upon them then, at that moment, when they are considered as one; so that henceforth the whole multitude, no longer viewed as mere individual men, become portions or members of the indivisible Body of Christ Mystical, so knit together in Him by Divine Grace, that all have what He has, and each has what all have. …