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I Versus WeI Corinthians 12:12-14
Excerpted from: Are You Part of the Spiritual Unity?Here we begin to see the structure of unity within the church. Since the members of the church are a new creation, the church body is likewise a new creation. In bringing the church into being, God has done something as entirely new in the spiritual realm as the creation of the universe was in the physical realm.
He did not simply take an Israelite and a Gentile, somehow bring them together in a coalition, seat them at a table, and agree to be friendly. The church is an entirely new creation. This is evident in the body analogy. The body consists of ten fingers, ten toes, two hands, two feet, two legs, two arms, and so on. Although these are individual members of the body, they are not merely a collection of parts, and they have not been created independently or separately and then assembled like a machine.
That is not how the body develops or comes into being. It all starts with one cell, which begins to develop and grow, sending out little buds, and one of these buds will eventually become the right forearm, arm, and hand. Another will form the same on the left. Then the bud that forms the trunk comes down, and the legs come off the trunk. It all comes out of the original primitive cell.
The parts have never had an independent existence. They are all offshoot outgrowths of this central primitive cell. That is why the body exhibits essential unity. By analogy, this illustration shows what is true of us as members of God's church.
I Corinthians 12:12
Excerpted from: Government (Part 2)The key modifier in all of this (for terms of the subject that we are exploring here) is the word "spiritual." We are going to look on this from a related, but yet a different, angle.
Here is the illustration. Christ is like a human body that has many parts. Each one functions separately and yet together. Each part of the Body is empowered by God to carry out its responsibility (or function) within the Body, and yet every part of this Body is functioning for the good of the Body. Verse 13 is a key for understanding this.
I Corinthians 12:12
Excerpted from: Government (Part Six)It is so plain! The apostle is describing "an organic whole" here—with Body and Head. So, Christ is complete. He is Head and Body, and the Body part is called the church. But the church consists of many people—many different parts. When you combine this with Ephesians the first chapter, it is very clear that the Head stands apart from the Body in terms of authority. That's where the authority lies—not in the Body, but in the Head.
I Corinthians 12:12-13
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Five): TabernaclesI Corinthians 12. If you know your chapters, this is the body image. No, you have a nice body image, that is not what I am talking about. This is the symbol of Christ's Body.
We are in the Body of Christ. We dwell in Him as members of His church. That is what Paul is getting at. He is getting at the idea that we are all bound into Christ.
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