The Source of Confidence (Finding Truth Pt. 3)
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7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
Let’s take a look at our body. Be honest with me, almost all of us in here can use our body to its fullest extent. When you run, how many legs do you use? When you clap how many hands do you use? When you bite on something to eat it, how many teeth do you use? When we perform a task, when we dance, eat, run, play, walk, laugh we use every part of our body in order to do certain things. If we were to clap, it would be really hard to do that with only one hand. I want all of you in here to clap with one hand.
Now I want 2 people to come up and we’re going to practice clapping with only one hand. Mrs. Stephanie and I will show you how to clap with 2 people. We will hold each other like this so we can pretend we only have 1 hand each. And when we clap, we will clap into each other’s hand. Now that you’ve seen it, can any of you come up as a pair and show me you can do it?
When you clapped together, who had the hardest part in clapping together? Was one person more important than the other? absolutely not. And in order to clap with 1 hand each, you NEEDED each other.
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
what we see here in these verses is how a Guy named Paul describes us, the people of the church. These Bible verses tells us that the church itself should function the same way your body does. The body is not made up of one part, but instead its made up of multiple parts. The body functions as one unit but sometimes, the church behaves differently. Let’s take a look at how they behave:
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
The Bible tells us that the church sometimes behaves in 3 different ways.
They refuse to be a part of the body.
They want to be a part of the body, but they want to play someone else’s part.
They tell other parts of the body that they don’t need them.
All of these behaviors are unacceptable behaviors that come from the body of Christ. I mean lets take a look at how at your own body functions. would it make sense if your arm said:
“I don’t to be a part of this body anymore” and just fall off?
The right arm say: “I want to be the left arm or be the right leg”
You can’t be here anymore. You don’t belong in this body.
Can your body part tell each other to go away? if your leg could speak, do you think it would say: “I don’t want to be a part of this body anymore”?
It is impossible for your body parts to hate your body because your body parts don’t run themselves. Who tells your body parts what to do? Your brain does, because your brain is in charge.
24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
So if we are the body, who is the head? Jesus is, God is, Christ is the head of the body. In the same way in which you tell your body what to do and where to go and it listens. God tells His body what to do and where to go. And it is our job to listen to the Head in anything and everything the Head ask from us.
I have a question for all of you:
What is God asking of you?
He could asking you to come to faith in Him, to accept Him as Lord and Savior. For other He may be asking you to get baptized, or take a further step of obedience to Him. For the adults in the room, how can we show God that we are further committed to our relationship with Him?
You know, many people will say that they don’t go to church to see other church people. I came here for God. And that is true, we come here to worship Jesus, to talk to Jesus, to learn about Jesus, but we also come to be with each other, to pray for each other, to learn about each other.
The body needs a regular check up with the doctor. If we don’t go to the doctor our body can be in big trouble. well God’s people need to learn to check up on each other. They need to learn that the church is God’s house where His people come to be with Him and with each other. The churches Goal is for all of His people to worship God together, not separate.
When the body begins to acknowledge one another, they begin to work in unity.
24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
It is vitally important to remember that the body is one, and when something bad happens in our body, we will all feel it. If someone in our church is suffering, we should suffer with them. If someone is our church has lost a family member, we should feel it. If someone is our church family is living in sin, it should break our hearts.
But in the same token, when someone in our church gets a raise at work, we celebrate. If someone in our church is singing really loudly and happily on Sunday, We should be singing with them as well. God calls us to participate in our family’s pain and joy.