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Thanks to a very healthy lifestyle, a married couple live well into their 100s
One day they are both killed in a tragic accident, and go to heaven.
On the first morning, they go up to God and ask where the gym is.
"Gym?" God replies, "you don't need to go to the gym here, you'll always be in perfect shape even if you never exercise."
The wife says how nice that is, but the husband looks a little bit annoyed.
In the afternoon, they go back to God and ask where they can get high factor sunscreen.
"This is heaven, you don't need it anymore, the sun can't burn you or give you cancer, enjoy the beaches."
The wife is satisfied, but the husband starts looking genuinely angry.
Later in the evening, they go to God and ask where they can find a health food restaurant for dinner.
"We don't have health food restaurants, you can eat as much as you want of whatever you want and never feel bloated or gain any weight."
Finally the husband snaps, and yells at his wife "You see?!
You see?! If it wasn't for your bloody bran muffins, I could've been here forty years ago!"
Did you know water solves many health problems?
Want to lose weight?
Drink water.
Want clearer skin?
Drink water.
Suffer from migraines?
Drink water.
People causing you anxiety?
Drown them in water.
See, water solves many things.
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Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Principle - A Healthy Body Does Not Have Schisms, But Seeks The Best Gifts Of God While Doing Their Part For His Kingdom.
Life Point- A Healthy Body Consists Of All Christians Doing Their Part For God’s Kingdom
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Today we come to a very familiar passage in God’s Word.
God is trying to remind us that there are many parts in the body of Christ that make up the whole body.
This flows out from the discussion of spiritual gifts that Paul had previously written about, but there is much more happening in this section than just that topic.
To equate a Jew to a Gentile would have been offensive to most Jews of the day.
They were very proud of their heritage.
To equate a freeman to a slave would have been offensive for a slave does not have the same rights as a freeman.
To be a slave, was to be a literal nobody.
Your opinion and your presence doesn’t matter.
You were nothing more than a thing to be told what to do, and that is it.
Yet God has chosen to take everyone, all classes and all societies to make up His people in our time of Grace.
As a matter of face all those that are saved drink from and are indwelt by the same Holy Spirit.
Whether Jew or Greek, whether slave or free all saved Christians get as much of the Holy Spirit, as much of God as anyone else.
You may think this isn’t so shocking today, but I gotta tell you if we would take this passage and truly apply it we would shock the world.
Indeed, shake the world down to its core.
Today the church is more divided than it ever has been.
It is more divided on racial grounds than it ever has been.
People no longer see themselves as first Christians and then whatever their cultural heritage is.
No, today people are putting themselves up by their race more than just 15 years ago, especially in our churches.
Especially in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Critical race theory has been and is being preached from the pulpits to the classrooms and it is incompatible with New Testament Christianity.
I won’t go into all of that today, but suffice it to say that CRT is about categorizing people and telling them they can’t overcome their category.
For example, it teaches that if you are white you are inherently racist, whether you life it or not you will always be racist.
It teaches that if you are non-Caucasian then you will always start at a place that is lower than the white people and you will never overcome that.
That is not what my Bible tells me.
This week I have been reading a book called The Forgotten Trinity by Dr. James White.
In it he stresses that no one person is of any lesser value in The Trinity.
Though each person has differing functions it does not make any one person of the trinity any lower or less than the other.
That is, unfortunately, not how we are used to seeing things.
We see things as the high man on the totem pole is the one who has more power than anyone else.
This isn’t in fact true.
Paul tells us, if all were an eye how would one hear?
If all were a hand, where would the feet be?
How would one walk?
So is the body of Christ.
I can preach ok, but I tell you I can’t sing like those that sing up here on stage.
Oh I can sing a solo, so low no one can hear me.
All of this to say that though I am a pastor it does not make me any less or any more important than the deacons, or the secretaries, or the man in the pew who is being equipped for the work of the ministry.
You see you are the workers of the ministry.
You are the ones who are to spread the Gospel.
You are important.
You have the most important role.
My job is to equip you, the saints, for the work of the ministry.
Yours is to do the work.
My job is to build you up so that you can fulfill the call of God to spread His Word.
Does this difference in job or responsibility make me inherently better than you as a Christian, as a human being?
No, it doesn’t.
Diversity of responsibilities, same value across the board.
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Life Point - A Healthy Body Does Not Have Schisms
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All parts of God’s body are equally important.
Let me tell you something.
The person who cleans the church or the person who pay the bills of the church is far more important than I and are worthy of double honor.
The folks who work in the background to make sure that everything is available and ready for the preaching of God’s Word, whether it be in song or in word, are worthy of honor.
Without them, it all falls apart.
When each person is doing what they are called to do in the body of Christ, both locally in this church and universally in the Kingdom of God, we have harmony amongst the members.
Each member uses their gifts to fill the need of the next member.
Each member cares for one another.
In this ways Paul says:
Division and strife happen within a church when one member who is called to be the hand wants to be the eye or when one who is called to be the foot wants to be the head.
This will cause all members to suffer.
Jealousy is what it usually comes down to, and unwillingness to do what God has called us to do.
God I will do anything you want me to do, so long as it isn’t working with Kids.
I don’t want to work with Kids.
God I will go anywhere you want me to go, so long as it isn’t Africa.
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