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Introduction:
God has done an amazing thing in creating the human body!
Consider this:
Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight.
A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tons – that is four times as much as concrete can support.
When you sleep, you grow by about 0.3 inches.
The next day you shrink back to your former height.
The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.
The average person in the West eats 50 tons of food and drinks 11,000 gallons of liquid during his life.
The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day.
To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 50 miles every day.
In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.
When the human body works well, it is amazing.
When it doesn’t, we suffer.
We don’t think about how important every part of our body is, until we have a problem with it.
It doesn’t take much to mess up your day; a tooth ache, or earache, jamming your finger, spraining your ankle, even something as minor as getting something in your eye.
We can strain a muscle we didn’t know we had, and it will keep us awake all night.
It is not by accident that the body is one of the metaphors used in the Bible to describe the Church.
God in His wisdom uses the human body as an object lesson to teach us about how we as His children relate to Him and to each other.
With this in mind, let’s look at one of the key passages in the Bible that talks about the Church in terms of a body, 1 Cor.
12:12-26 page 813 in the chair Bibles.
As fascinating as the human body is, today’s message is not going to be about anatomy.
In these verses Paul gives us insight into the Church, which is called the Body of Christ.
The first thing we need to see from these verses is that
1.
There is unity and diversity in the Body of Christ. 1 Cor.
12:12-26
The unity is because as Christians
A. We are members of the Body of Christ.
e.g.
How many of you are or have been a member of a club?
Whether it is the boys scouts, girl scouts, Lions club, a country club, there is a membership process.
Let’s look at how we became members of the Church.
Did you notice that in verse 13 it says the Holy Spirit immersed or put us into, that’s what the word baptized means here, one Body, meaning the Church.
At the moment of salvation, when you believed that Jesus died on the cross, was buried and rose again to pay for your sins, a lot of things happened.
One of which is you were put into and became a member of the Body of Christ.
How do we know it happened at the moment of salvation?
Some people teach that you become a Christian and then later receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:9 says,
Are you a Christian, belonging to God? Yes? Then you have the received the baptism of the Spirit.
If you don’t have the Spirit, you are not a child of God and don’t belong to Him.
So we are all members of the Body of Christ.
We are all connected!
Even though there are many members
B. The Body is one.
All believers from the beginning of the church, which is described in Acts 2 when the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, are all members of the body of Christ.
We are one.
We are connected to one another.
This is why you can go someplace and meet another Christian and after a short time sense a bond, a connection with him or her.
I have and I know many of you have met Christians all over the world.
When it happens, it is wonderful, because we are all part of something huge, which transcends time and space.
Again in verse 13 we see that being in the body of Christ unites us regardless of race or social status.
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I am not a Cubs fan, I grew up going to SF Giants and Oakland A’s games.
I have lived in the Chicago area for 17 years now and am united by common experience with Cub fans.
Here’s what that means.
If I were to go to a Cubs game and if I were sitting in the bleachers and if the opposing team hit a home run, even if it were by an SF Giant or an Oakland A player, I would . . .
“Throw it back!”
Yep.
In the Church, we are united with one another because of our connection with each other through the Holy Spirit.
Now, even though we are united and racial and social barriers and distinctions are gone, it is still true that
C. The body is diverse.
We have a unity, but we also have diversity.
Let’s think again about the body analogy.
Just as we have feet and hands in our human bodies, different parts with different functions, so it is in the body of Christ.
Diversity in our day often refers to racial or social diversity, but that isn’t the focus here.
If that is not the diversity in view here, what is it?
What is it that set us apart from one another?
What makes us into the different parts of the Body of Christ?
I am so glad you asked.
It is our particular role.
2. There are distinct roles for the members of the body. 1 Cor.
12:1-11
In the analogy we read in verses 12-26 the roles are associated with Body part, a foot, hand, ear, eye, etc.
In fact, the roles
A. These are called spiritual gifts.
Look back in your Bibles with me at the 1 Cor.
12:1-3
This analogy of the Church as a body is set in the context of spiritual gifts.
This is an important topic, one which Paul is going to teach them.
He continues,
Paul is saying that before the Corinthians were Christians, they followed pagan idols, they felt drawn to them.
They experienced their false religions in an ecstatic fashion.
Paul says there is a way to be able to distinguish between manifestations that come from the Holy Spirit and those that don’t.
The key is, “how does the Lordship of Jesus fit into the experience?”
That will guide all of Paul’s teaching.
Okay, there is something called spiritual gifts.
What is a spiritual gift?
Let’s continue reading.
First, we see that they are
B.
They are supernatural enablements.
The Trinity gives them.
They are supernatural because the Trinity is involved in giving them to us, Spirit v. 4, Lord, v. 5, God, v. 6.
They have supernatural effectiveness
They are supernatural because have supernatural effectiveness – notice in v. 6 “God who empowers them all.”
This is a cool thing.
Every believer has an area of his or her life in which God will work His power in a special way.
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George Mueller, Greg Laurie, ushers . .
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They aren’t natural.
Don’t confuse them with talents, passions, skill or experience.
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