I Corinthians 12:11-26: A Body That Pleases God

A Body that Pleases God, I Corinthians 12:11-26

Names that describe the Body of Believers

The Church (Acts 2:47)

The Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:30-32)

The Temple of God (Ephesians 2:20-22)

The Body of Christ (Ephesians 5:30)

The right attitudes in the Body of Christ please Him.

What are these right attitudes?

1. There is Individuality in the Body (vv. 11-17)

A. What we have in common

All baptized by one Spirit (v. 13)

All baptized into one body

All made to drink of one Spirit

B. What we have as individuals (vv. 14-17)

We retain our own temperaments

We retain our own personalities

C. The Corinthian church neglected this truth (1 Corinthians 3)

Shouldn’t long to be someone else

Should accept ourselves as we are

2. There is no Inferiority in the Body (vv. 18-22)

A. A bridge verse to comfort (v. 18)

God has set us in the body

We are gifted as it pleases Him

B. We must accept ourselves and others

C. We need each other

We are not all the same

We complement one another

Serving together we please our Lord

D. The feeble members are needed, too (vv. 22-24)

No one to be looked down on

Honor enough for all

3. There is to be Intimate fellowship in the body (vv. 25-26)

A. “There should be no schism in the body”

B. We are to care for one another

C. We are to love one another

D. We are to respond when another member suffers

E. We are to rejoice when another member is honored

F. We are not to be divided but of one accord (Acts 2:1)

What happens when we function as a Body?

Consider the first-century church

Thousands converted; churches established

Could this happen today?

Why not? Why not here? Why not now?