The Body

1.      INTRODUCTION: MAN IS COMPOSED OF A TRINITY - BODY, MIND, SPIRIT WE THE CHURCH COMPOSE THE TRINITY OF CHRIST AFTER HIS RESSURRECTION

a.    WE REPRESENT THE BODY OF CHRIST

        i.   THE MIND OF CHRIST

       ii.    THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST

b.      THE BODY – (1COR 12:12, 13) “FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE AND HATH MANY MEMBERS AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THAT ONE BODY, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY: SO ALSO IS CHRIST. FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY...

1.      THE NATURE OF THE BODY

a.       ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BORN. .AGAIN OF THE SPIRIT

                       i.      (13) ..“FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY.”

b.      CHRIST IS THE HEAD

                                                              i.      (COL 1”18) “AND HE (CHRIST) IS THE HEAD OF
THE BODY, THE CHURCH . . .“

                                                            ii.       (COL 2:19) “THE HEAD, FROM WHICH ALL THE BODY BY JOINTS AND BANDS HAVING NURRISHJIENT MINISTERED, AND KNIT TOGETHER INCREASETH WITH THE INCREASE OF GOD”

c.       IF CHRIST IS THE HEAD AND WE DRAW NURISHMENT FROM HIM THEN WE IVI1JST ALL MOVE AS ONE. . . UNITY.

                                                              i.      ONE MEMBER “DOING HIS OWN THING” WILL DIE

                                                            ii.      ALL TOGETHER -CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER.

2.      THE PURPOSEOF THE BODY

a.       (II COR 5:18,19) “AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD, WHO HATH RECONCILED
US TO HIMSELF BY JESUS CHRIST, AND HATH GIVEN TO US THE MINISTRY
OF RECONCILIATION; TO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING
THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF .... AND MATH COMMITTED UNTO US THE WORD OF
RECONCILIATION.

                                                              i.      WE ARE TO RECONCILE THE WORLD TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST

b.      JESUS SAID (JOHN 17:18) “AS THOU HAST SENT ME INTO THE WORLD, EVEN SO HAVE I ALSO SENT THEM INTO THE WORLD.”

                                                              i.      WE ARE TO CARRY HIS MESSAGE

c.       A CHURCH THAT DOESN’T BRING MEN BACK TO GOD IS NOT PART OF THE BODY

                                                              i.       HAVE BECOME A CAUSE OF THERE OWN.

d.      THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION.

                                                              i.      RECONCILE THE LIFE TO THE GIVER OF LIFE

                                                            ii.      RECONCILE THE BODY TO THE HOLINESS GOD INTENDS

e.       ALL THE BLESSINGS OF GOD UPON THE BODY ARE TO THIS END - SALVATION OF’ MAN

                                                              i.      ALL THE RESORCES OF GOD AVAILABLE TO US FOR THIS WORK.

                                                            ii.      INCLUDING HIS POWER

3.      THE EFFECT OF THE BODY

a.       ALL THE SAINTS MOVE TOGETHER TO WIN SOULS

b.      CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER