The Body

Friday, September 17, 2021

10:30 AM

The church 7 pictures.

Body of Christ

Jesus hints at this picture

John 2:19–22 ESV

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Acts 9:5 ESV

5 And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Paul uses it most

Romans 12:4–5 ESV

4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Participation

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV

13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Baptizeed into one body by one spirit

1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV

14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

The body has many different parts, not just one part.

Every Member

1 Corinthians 12:15–16 ESV

15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

. : the foot can not say to the hand I don't need you.

If I say,"I'm not as gifted as that person" we are often lining up for the sin of ommision, not doing the good I can do.

Diversity

1 Corinthians 12:17 ESV

17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?