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Have you ever visited a really weird exhibit?
You walk in, look at everything, and wonder why in the world you are there.
The weirdest exhibit that I have ever been to was one on the human body.
It was at a science museum in Dallas.
For some reason, some scientist had decided to freeze two bodies, male and female, and then, they created thin slices of the whole body.
Like they ran the entire body through a deli meat slicer.
They colored all the organs, bones, muscles, etc., in different colors, and then laminated the slices.
So, you walk into a room and are met by life-size laminated slices of the inside of your body.
It was a mixture of uncomfortable and awkward.
To make matters worse.
I was there with a female friend, that I wasn’t dating and had no intention of dating, but for some reason, I was there with her and her folks.
I tried to act nonchalant, but how can you really when you are faced with what appear to be relics of an ancient torture session?
The goal of the display was to show the viewer the amazing interrelation of the body.
All the different parts working together.
Each is necessary.
Each is important.
While Paul is not envisioning dissected bodies in this passage, he is talking about the various parts of a body and correlating the body to us.
Let’s read the passage.
Will you pray with me?
Today we are going to talk about the Body of Christ.
We are going to define it, discuss what it is made of, talk about the interworking of it, and then the focus of it all.
1. Body of Christ—Definition
So often, we talk about the Body of Christ.
In several sermons I have thrown that phrase around.
But, how often does anyone define what it means?
We could talk about the physical body of flesh and bone that Jesus had.
The one that died and was resurrected.
But, when we refer to the Body of Christ, we aren’t referring to that body.
Paul writes:
What is Paul talking about here?
If you have been part of my membership classes, you know what I am about to say.
Unless you forgot, and that’s okay.
We can give two definitions to this.
We could talk about the spiritual body of Christ.
This is everyone who has placed their faith in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, entering into that personal relationships with Him.
Paul speaks of this process in Ephesians 1:3-14.
I wish that I could read the whole passage, but you can read it for yourself.
So many amazing things about this passage.
It speaks of our salvation and how God now views us because of Jesus Christ.
The bottom line is that we are saved because of God’s grace, when we believe.
It is not based upon anything that we have done.
If you have placed your faith in Christ alone, you are saved and you are part of the Body of Christ.
Everyone who has done this is part of the Body of Christ, whether they became a Christian today or 2000 years ago.
Up in Heaven, there are many people waiting for the resurrection of their bodies who are part of the Body of Christ with us.
So, that is one definition of the Body of Christ.
But, Paul is being more specific in 1 Corinthians than the spiritual body of Christ.
So, we will talk about what I call the Physical body of Christ.
Everyone who is part of the spiritual body of Christ should be part of a Physical Body.
These are Christians who live in a location and they meet together regularly to worship together, to perform the ordinances, and to encourage one another in sanctification.
We call it church.
Not a building, but people who covenant together to teach truth, to edify each other, to encourage each other in the fulfilment of the Great Commission, and to restore each other when we sin.
This is what we see happening in Acts.
I said something specific earlier.
I said that the Local Body of Christ is a people who covenant together.
We live in a transient society.
Everyone is on the move.
Unfortunately, that has effected the church.
We are used to people coming and going in a church, attending a little bit here and a little bit there.
But, God designed the local church to be a body, holding each other accountable.
However, it is hard to know who you are holding accountable if there is not commitment.
That is one reason that we have membership here at the church, so that we know who we are covenanted with and so that we know what we are holding each other accountable to.
If you want more information on that, please let me know.
The body of Christ: Christians who live in a location and they meet together regularly to worship together, to perform the ordinances, and to encourage one another in sanctification.
2. Body of Christ—Material
What is the Body of Christ made up of.
Well, each one of us.
And we are all different.
Paul writes:
Paul gives two illustrations about how this works out.
He writes to those who think that they don’t belong because they are not like someone else.
It is easy for us to compare ourselves to each other.
I have had people say that they wished they knew as much about the Bible as I did.
I’ve had some people say that they wished I knew as much about the Bible as they did.
It all comes around.
Just because we do not have the skill or the gifting or the personality of someone else, does not mean that we are not useful to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
The second illustration Paul gives is to those who don’t want someone else part of their church.
We are all human.
We cannot deny it.
We naturally look down at others.
We naturally want people to be like us.
However, the people we look down on are indispensable to us.
I think about a lady who attend this church past, who then moved away.
When she was here, she thought that she was such a burden to us.
During Sunday school she kept asking questions because she couldn’t understand portions of Scripture.
At times she told me that she was going to stop asking questions, because she didn’t want to distract the learning.
But, God had given her a great gift.
She had the humility to say “I don’t know.”
And she had the desire to learn.
That is a rare merging.
There are plenty of people who don’t know anything but they don’t have the humility to admit it.
And there are plenty of people who don’t know anything and they don’t want to learn.
But she wanted to learn and she had the humility to ask.
I know there were others who had the same questions that she had, but they weren’t willing to ask them.
We as a church would not be the same if we didn’t have members like her.
Our church wouldn’t be the same if we didn’t have members like you.
Paul writes:
God brings people into this local body on purpose.
If you attend here, it is because God has brought you here.
You may not believe that right now.
You might not even believe that there is a God!
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