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Introduction
Every Sunday people get up on the stage and share their ability and talent with Grace Church.
We don’t make any claim to be professional musicians, we are not the best band you will ever hear, however, what we do works to facilitate our worship of Christ through music and praise.
The reason what we do works is because all of us up here have embraced our role.
I play guitar and sing.
If I tried to play piano, auto-harp, saxophone, harmonica, or bongos, things would not go well.
We each have a role and function we have embraced and the result is the body of Christ here at Grace Church is able to worship and praise our God!
It would be ridiculous for me to say, well, because I’m not playing bongos, I’m not really part of the team.
It would be silly for Jess to say that since she isn’t playing the harmonica and singing at the same time, she isn’t part of the team.
We recognize these absurdities in music, yet we can miss them in regards to our spiritual gifting.
Our spiritual gifting works when we embrace our God-given role.
He has given the gift He wants us to have and to use in His service.
Purpose:
Our purpose this morning is to recognize that
Our Spiritual gifts are given for God’s glory and the church’s good.
Guidance:
This purpose comes with guidance.
To use our gifts for the glory of God and the good of the body, we need to embrace three realities.
Outcome:
This leads to an outcome.
As we embrace these realities we experience freedom, power, and effectiveness in the exercise of our gifts.
Three realities to embrace.
Reality #1…
1. Embrace Your Position vv.
12-14
VIDEO - 3:21
One of the joys of the Christian life is our new identity.
We are new creatures in Christ!
We have a new nature!
We are accepted and beloved and well pleasing in His sight!
We are holy.
This new identity is powerful.
Yet it must be embraced to be effective.
All of us have that voice inside that tells us we are worthless, that tells us we are rejected, unloved, and unlovable.
That voice is a lie from Satan and we must combat it with the truth of who Christ declares us to be.
We are redeemed, blood bought children of God.
When we embrace our new position, we are able to live boldly for Jesus Christ and be effective in His service.
We are all part of the body of Christ.
That is our position.
No matter what our gifting we belong to Him and He expects us to serve at His direction.
However, our position in the body of Christ, like our identity in Him, comes with some difficulties that seem like contradictions.
Paul mentions those in vv.
12-14.
Embracing our position in Christ means embracing three contradictions.
This is our position.
We are a…
a. Solitary multitude v. 12
Illustration - physical body and spiritual body.
Many members, one body.
Our physical bodies are a single unit.
And yet.
That single unit is made up of many parts.
The idea of this word “members” is both our extremities, arms, legs, hands etc, and our internal parts.
All of these are necessary to make up a body, and yet it is still just one body.
Paul is shifting gears here to focus on the unity of the body in the midst of its diversity.
The body is diverse yet interdependent.
All the parts, all the members are necessary to have a fully functioning, healthy body.
No matter how many parts make up the whole, it is one unit.
There is unity in the diversity.
We are solitary, and yet a multitude.
So also is Christ.
Just like our physical bodies are made up of many parts, the body of Christ is as well.
This same point is made in Romans 12:4-5.
Romans 12:4-5
We are going to come back to the fact that we don’t all have the same function, that is an important statement.
For now, let’s focus on a couple other points.
We have many members, one body.
We are members of one another.
This means that what happens to one affects all!
Paul will stress this point more strongly later.
The other point we need to focus on is that we are part of the body of Christ.
We are His!
I love how Paul paints this contrast between our former position and what we now enjoy in Ephesians 2:11-13.
Ephesians 2:11-13
We were without Christ, separated from Him, strangers who were hopeless and helpless!
But the blood of Christ has brought us near!
The mind-boggling reality is that we are brought near as individuals and yet we are made into a whole.
We must embrace our position as a solitary multitude.
Yes, self care is important, but so is body care.
Always bear in mind how your actions impact the rest of the body.
Here’s our lesson.
I am a part of larger whole.
Repeat - read aloud.
Our actions do not only affect us.
We are members of the body of Christ.
Three contradictions we must recognize as we embrace our position.
Contradiction #1: We are a solitary multitude.
Contradiction #2: We are a…
b.
Diverse unity v. 13
The first part of this verse stresses our unity.
The only way to get into the body of Christ is through the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
This is not water baptism.
This is a work of the Holy Spirit by which He places us into the body of Christ.
Water baptism is where we make a public declaration of faith in and identification with Christ.
Spirit baptism is the Spiritual reality of our change in identity.
It is the Spiritual identification with Christ.
We are placed into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit.
Thomas Constable writes that
Every believer experiences Spirit baptism regardless of his or her race or social status.
We are now on equal footing in the sense that we are all members of the body of Christ.
Many backgrounds, many ethnicities, many jobs, many social tiers, one body.
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