Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 124 - We Are One Body
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- 0:14Speaker 1: The law the Lord is perfect, convert. Testimony of the
- 0:18Speaker 1: Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statues of
- 0:22Speaker 1: the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of
- 0:26Speaker 1: the Lord is pure, enlightening the eye. The fear of
- 0:29Speaker 1: the Lord is clean and enduring forever. The judgments of
- 0:32Speaker 1: the Lord are true and righteous. Altogether more to be
- 0:37Speaker 1: desired than fine goal, Yes, yes, fine goal. Sweeter also
- 0:43Speaker 1: than honey in the honey comb. Amen. Thank God for
- 0:47Speaker 1: his word, his law, his amen, commandments, his precepts. Amen,
- 0:53Speaker 1: They keep us from day to day. Amen. His word Amen,
- 0:57Speaker 1: is our light, our guide direction. Amen. And certainly also
- 1:02Speaker 1: it is our protection. Amen. In the word of God,
- 1:06Speaker 1: we have a man all that we need. Amen, to
- 1:10Speaker 1: a man keep us in this certainly present world of
- 1:15Speaker 1: a man, evil and turmoil and confusion and upheaval. Amen.
- 1:20Speaker 1: And we can know that. Amen. The word of God.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Amen is sure. It is a man. It is pure,
- 1:27Speaker 1: as the Bible says I've just read by the way
- 1:30Speaker 1: I was reading from Ps. Nineteen. It is pure and
- 1:35Speaker 1: it is right. Amen. And we certainly we do ourselves
- 1:39Speaker 1: great Amen, great, great, great, great good. Amen. By taking
- 1:44Speaker 1: heed to the word of the Living God. All right,
- 1:46Speaker 1: we welcome you once again to this another edition of
- 1:48Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcasts for those of you
- 1:52Speaker 1: who listen by way of our audio podcasts, and we
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- 2:01Speaker 1: the Wilderness. One Voice in the Wilderness is our YouTube handle.
- 2:06Speaker 1: We certainly invite you to a man tune in each
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- 2:24Speaker 1: can subscribe also, of course to the YouTube channel. We
- 2:29Speaker 1: certainly appreciate it. And again we are here to a
- 2:33Speaker 1: man proclaim the truth of God in such a time
- 2:36Speaker 1: as this, a man to a man ultimately warn a
- 2:40Speaker 1: man people to flee from the raft to come. Amen,
- 2:43Speaker 1: know that they can have peace and joy, security, hope, Amen,
- 2:48Speaker 1: all of the things that God has a man for
- 2:51Speaker 1: them that love Him, blessed assurance. Even though we will
- 2:54Speaker 1: go through, Amen, trials and tribulations and tests and persecution
- 2:58Speaker 1: and all of that in this life temporary season in
- 3:01Speaker 1: which we will live on this Amen, this side of glory.
- 3:04Speaker 1: But we have a blessed hope, We have a blessed
- 3:07Speaker 1: assurance that goes beyond, a man that transcends Amen, this
- 3:13Speaker 1: mere mortal life. Amen, that we're all a man, a
- 3:17Speaker 1: part of and certainly we want each and every a
- 3:20Speaker 1: man person, A man who will who will? Who will?
- 3:24Speaker 1: A man listen? Who will hear? Amen? The voice of
- 3:28Speaker 1: the Lord as he knocks at the door of your heart.
- 3:31Speaker 1: We want, we desire, we pray that you will open up,
- 3:34Speaker 1: Amen and let the Lord. Amen. A man take control
- 3:38Speaker 1: of your life. Amen, a man set your feet on
- 3:42Speaker 1: a right path, Amen, a path of amen, joy and peace,
- 3:48Speaker 1: a man contentment. Again, no matter what we go through
- 3:52Speaker 1: in this life, Amen, all things working together for our good.
- 3:55Speaker 1: And certainly we are a man people of hope, a
- 3:59Speaker 1: people of joy, a people of peace, and people that know, Amen,
- 4:05Speaker 1: that we have the victory. We know Amen, we are
- 4:08Speaker 1: over commerce. We are more than conquerors. A man because
- 4:12Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, our champion, our Amen, for runner has gone
- 4:16Speaker 1: before us and one for us the victory and gave
- 4:20Speaker 1: it to us. Amen. And that's how we know, and
- 4:24Speaker 1: that's why we have confidence. And there's blessed assurance. All right,
- 4:28Speaker 1: we're continuing in our series, our study, our look if
- 4:33Speaker 1: you will, in the first letter of the Apostle Paul
- 4:37Speaker 1: to the Corinthian Church, and we're continuing today in chapter
- 4:41Speaker 1: number twelve. We started in our last session there speaking
- 4:47Speaker 1: about looking at examining a man the gifts a man
- 4:52Speaker 1: in the body of Christ. And the Apostle Paul certainly
- 4:58Speaker 1: writes to the church and warned us and certainly instructs
- 5:02Speaker 1: us and also admonishes us because he does not want
- 5:07Speaker 1: us to be ignorant, a people of ignorance. And again,
- 5:10Speaker 1: with the word of God, the power of God, the
- 5:12Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Spirit, there's no excuse, amen for
- 5:16Speaker 1: any child of God walking in ignorance, living in ignorance, Amen,
- 5:25Speaker 1: being tossed to and fro as it were a man
- 5:28Speaker 1: and carried about with every wind of doctrine, a man
- 5:31Speaker 1: when God has given to us everything that we need
- 5:34Speaker 1: that pertains the life and godliness in this present world.
- 5:37Speaker 1: But today we're going to focus on not the gifts
- 5:41Speaker 1: in the body, but the problem of schism as it
- 5:46Speaker 1: were in the body. And I just want to encourage
- 5:49Speaker 1: you and please understand this. This is what we need
- 5:52Speaker 1: to know that we are one. We are one, and
- 5:55Speaker 1: I'm talking about the true Church. I'm not talking about Amen, organizations.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I'm not talking about different religions. Man. And by the way, Christianity,
- 6:06Speaker 1: you've heard me say it, but if you miss most
- 6:08Speaker 1: of you maybe have heard me say this before. Christianity
- 6:10Speaker 1: is not a religion a man. Christianity, true Christianity, that
- 6:14Speaker 1: is a man, is God, a man. Salvation, God's God
- 6:20Speaker 1: coming down a man. Religion is man reaching up. Religion
- 6:24Speaker 1: is man trying to appease a man God or a God.
- 6:30Speaker 1: And most religions, all religions actually are a man. False
- 6:36Speaker 1: they are, they are, every one of them. There's no
- 6:40Speaker 1: there is no religion. The only religion that the Bible
- 6:43Speaker 1: speaks of is true religion being a man, a man
- 6:48Speaker 1: keeping himself unspotted from the world, visiting the fatherless and
- 6:52Speaker 1: the widows and their afflictions. Amen. That's pure religion the
- 6:56Speaker 1: Bible speaks of, undefiled before God. Amen. Christianity is not
- 7:01Speaker 1: a religion. Christianity is God, a man, saving a man
- 7:06Speaker 1: people from their sins through Jesus Christ, through him alone.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Neither is there salvation in any other There's none other
- 7:13Speaker 1: name given them, my men. The Bible tells us whereby
- 7:16Speaker 1: we must be saved Christ, Jesus. We get the term
- 7:20Speaker 1: Christianity from, of course, following Christ, being disciples of Christ,
- 7:26Speaker 1: and the Bible is very explicit. Jesus Christ himself is
- 7:29Speaker 1: very clear, crystal clear about what it takes a man
- 7:33Speaker 1: to be a disciple of Christ, a man. We must
- 7:36Speaker 1: be baptized into Him by one spirit. That's what we're
- 7:39Speaker 1: going to see today. We are all baptized into one body.
- 7:42Speaker 1: God only has one church, he only has one wife,
- 7:46Speaker 1: he only has one bride, a man. The bride of
- 7:49Speaker 1: Christ is going to be one, not one organization, and
- 7:53Speaker 1: not some again religious order or something or that is
- 7:58Speaker 1: man made a man. It is the body of Christ.
- 8:02Speaker 1: And we are by the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Bible
- 8:06Speaker 1: says this. By the way, all right, sister Timothy, the
- 8:09Speaker 1: foundation of God stands sure having this ill the Lord
- 8:11Speaker 1: knows them that are his. Let everyone who names the
- 8:14Speaker 1: name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great
- 8:17Speaker 1: house you have all kinds of vessels. And that's what
- 8:19Speaker 1: we see, as it were in the Church or in
- 8:22Speaker 1: the Kingdom on this earth. Amen. The devil has sown
- 8:27Speaker 1: his tars and and and so we a man as
- 8:31Speaker 1: the True Church, as the a man the people of God,
- 8:35Speaker 1: who are, by amen, the Holy Spirit, a man by
- 8:39Speaker 1: the power of the baptism that Jesus himself does. And
- 8:44Speaker 1: do you remember John the Baptis says, I baptize you
- 8:46Speaker 1: with water. But there's one coming after me who is
- 8:47Speaker 1: mightier than I. Man whose shoe at it I'm not worthy,
- 8:51Speaker 1: Amen to unloose. He's going to back. He's going he ye, ye,
- 8:55Speaker 1: by Jesus Christ, only can you be saved. He is
- 8:59Speaker 1: going to baptis ties you with the Holy Ghost and fire. Amen.
- 9:04Speaker 1: So the Lord knows them that are his. He knows
- 9:08Speaker 1: every person that he has baptized, Amen, with his Holy Spirit.
- 9:14Speaker 1: And so we have that great confidence, We have that assurance, Amen.
- 9:18Speaker 1: And we have that blessed hope. A man of one Lord,
- 9:22Speaker 1: one faith, one baptism, one church, one true Church of
- 9:27Speaker 1: the Living God. And this True Church of the Living God,
- 9:30Speaker 1: of which I'm going to be speaking about today, we
- 9:33Speaker 1: are one body. Amen. We are one body. Because please
- 9:40Speaker 1: understand that when we have sect when we have factions,
- 9:43Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to dismiss or downplay the fact
- 9:48Speaker 1: or the reality that there will be problems, and there
- 9:52Speaker 1: are problems in the church. There really are problems in
- 9:56Speaker 1: the church. And of course we expect these things. We
- 9:59Speaker 1: know these things. The Lord prepared us for these things.
- 10:02Speaker 1: We should not be taken aback by these things. This
- 10:06Speaker 1: is all because the enemy, the adversary, a man, the accuser,
- 10:11Speaker 1: is consistently again on the attack, if you will, seeking
- 10:18Speaker 1: to turn us back, seeking to discourage us, seeking to
- 10:23Speaker 1: a man again. He really wants us back. This is
- 10:31Speaker 1: something I hope that the church really understands. Amen. The
- 10:42Speaker 1: the the attack, the persecutions, and all the things that
- 10:46Speaker 1: a man will come your way once you say yes
- 10:49Speaker 1: to Jesus, and the Bible says we're going to suffer persecution.
- 10:53Speaker 1: And this is why in the church you see all
- 10:57Speaker 1: of these different amen sex and factions and cliques and divisions,
- 11:04Speaker 1: all of this amen uh uh. They're designed, they are
- 11:09Speaker 1: encouraged by the devil amen uh, and they're useful by
- 11:13Speaker 1: him a man uh to stir up and to foment
- 11:17Speaker 1: and to a man create this unity and schism in
- 11:22Speaker 1: the body. And so we have to understand the amen
- 11:28Speaker 1: uh desire, the will a man and the a man
- 11:33Speaker 1: commands of God Amen, for the church. And and he
- 11:38Speaker 1: is a man UH designed for us to be a
- 11:42Speaker 1: people of unity. Amen. That doesn't mean we're all the same,
- 11:46Speaker 1: doesn't mean we're all the same. And we're going to
- 11:47Speaker 1: see this very clearly in UH this chapter of First Corinthians,
- 11:52Speaker 1: chapter twelve. Man, we're not all the same. Amen, but
- 11:56Speaker 1: we are and to and we are, and we are
- 11:59Speaker 1: to be. Let me slow that down. We are to
- 12:03Speaker 1: be on one accord. We are to be working toward
- 12:07Speaker 1: the same mission. And that's the mission that God has
- 12:10Speaker 1: given to the Church, that Jesus brother, let me put
- 12:13Speaker 1: it that way, gave to the Church. Amen. Go into
- 12:16Speaker 1: all the world, Amen, to every creature. Amen, Go baptize,
- 12:23Speaker 1: make disciples of all nations. Baptize them in the name,
- 12:27Speaker 1: in the name Amen. Amen, of the Father and of
- 12:31Speaker 1: the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. And he said, Lo,
- 12:35Speaker 1: I'm with you always, even to the end of the world.
- 12:38Speaker 1: He is with us. He is for us. Amen. And
- 12:42Speaker 1: oneness is what the Kingdom of Heaven is all about. Amen.
- 12:45Speaker 1: And it's our duty, it's our obligation. Amen, as the
- 12:50Speaker 1: people of God, it's the Church of Living God. Amen.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Because He of course has made us partakers not only
- 12:56Speaker 1: has he made us partakers, He's made us sons. And
- 12:59Speaker 1: not only has he made us sons, he made us heirs.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Not only has made us, he made us joint heirs
- 13:05Speaker 1: with Christ Jesus, Amen, our Lord. And we are to
- 13:09Speaker 1: be one body in the unity of the faith, a man,
- 13:14Speaker 1: as as as we have been called a man in
- 13:17Speaker 1: this Amen, calling that God has done in us and
- 13:21Speaker 1: force and through us. And so the kingdom of Heaven,
- 13:23Speaker 1: which the Church of Jesus Christ certainly is a part of, Amen,
- 13:28Speaker 1: it is built upon a man, solidly grounded, a man,
- 13:34Speaker 1: a solidly grounded foundation, brother of humility, a man humility. Amen.
- 13:41Speaker 1: And and and and and though God himself dwells in
- 13:44Speaker 1: the heights of the heavens, yet the Bible teaches that
- 13:47Speaker 1: he chooses, Amen, to come down. He chooses to a bid,
- 13:51Speaker 1: He chooses to a man commune. He chooses to be
- 13:56Speaker 1: with a man, be in a man. Those those who
- 14:00Speaker 1: are of the lowliest of the states, those who are
- 14:04Speaker 1: all of us, who are of course mere mortal men.
- 14:07Speaker 1: But those who are a broken heart in the contryt spirit. Amen,
- 14:11Speaker 1: God joses the tabernacle with men. Amen. What is man?
- 14:16Speaker 1: The Simon said, that you're a mindful of him. What
- 14:18Speaker 1: is man that you would come and visit him? The
- 14:21Speaker 1: great God of heaven, who owns everything, who a man,
- 14:25Speaker 1: created all things for his glory and honor. Amen. He
- 14:30Speaker 1: builds his kingdom. Amen. And he showed to us the
- 14:35Speaker 1: example through Jesus Christ, of course, who is the builder
- 14:38Speaker 1: and founder of the church. A man, through him, a man,
- 14:42Speaker 1: he demonstrated, a man humility, a man came down to
- 14:48Speaker 1: earth and the lowliest of his states. You know the story,
- 14:51Speaker 1: how he was a man born in Bethlehem. There was
- 14:58Speaker 1: no room for him. Amen. And Uh, he never had
- 15:02Speaker 1: a title deed to any property, any house. He had
- 15:05Speaker 1: no house that he could call his home. Amen. Uh,
- 15:09Speaker 1: he said, For he said himself, the foxes of the
- 15:12Speaker 1: of the field they have homes, the birds of the
- 15:15Speaker 1: air they have nests. But the son of man has
- 15:18Speaker 1: nowhere to lay his head. The builder, the founder of
- 15:23Speaker 1: the Church of Jesus Christ, Christ himself is our model,
- 15:26Speaker 1: is our example, is our amen? Of course, great high priest, Amen,
- 15:32Speaker 1: who modeled for us what it means to be Uh,
- 15:36Speaker 1: people of humility. And of course you know the story.
- 15:39Speaker 1: How those are you familiar with the gospel? How he
- 15:42Speaker 1: washed the feet of the apostles. Amen. And that was
- 15:48Speaker 1: that was something that was relegated to slaves. Amen. But
- 15:52Speaker 1: Jesus humble himself. Can you imagine that Jesus washing the
- 15:57Speaker 1: feet of the apostles, the disciples. Amen. But that's what
- 16:02Speaker 1: he did, and he said, and he taught them, He listened,
- 16:05Speaker 1: and he said, he that would be great among you,
- 16:08Speaker 1: Let him be your servant. The one who exalts himself.
- 16:12Speaker 1: He's going to be a man abased, He's going to
- 16:15Speaker 1: be brought down a man. So pride and arrogance and
- 16:21Speaker 1: haughtiness is not what the Kingdom of God is all about. Amen.
- 16:26Speaker 1: It's all about humility. And and this is what is
- 16:30Speaker 1: so again so troubling in the Body of Christ today.
- 16:32Speaker 1: One of the things that so troubling in the body
- 16:35Speaker 1: is the lack of And that's the reason why we
- 16:37Speaker 1: have a lack of unity in the body, is because
- 16:39Speaker 1: there's pride and arrogance and a lack of servanthood among
- 16:44Speaker 1: those especially who have been exalted, as it were, some
- 16:51Speaker 1: self exalted. I will say to these amen, positions of
- 16:57Speaker 1: the authority of leadership, and don't realize and recognize that
- 17:02Speaker 1: they are to actually be the servants of the people,
- 17:05Speaker 1: the servants of the kingdom. He that will be great
- 17:08Speaker 1: among you, let him become your slave. Amen. And so
- 17:13Speaker 1: this is what Paul is addressing also here in this
- 17:17Speaker 1: twelfth chapter of First Corinthians, the importance of Amen, understanding
- 17:22Speaker 1: that every part of the body, every person in the body,
- 17:27Speaker 1: everybody in the body, is important. No one is above
- 17:33Speaker 1: anyone else. Amen. Were all to be brethren, as Christ
- 17:38Speaker 1: told his disciples. Again, we're all to be called brethren, Amen,
- 17:43Speaker 1: in the Lord a man. And I'm not dismissing the
- 17:46Speaker 1: title of elder and bishop and apostle and those things.
- 17:50Speaker 1: We see that we know that's in the Bible, we
- 17:51Speaker 1: know that's in the Church. I'm not dismissing that at all,
- 17:54Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna even really, I may not address
- 17:58Speaker 1: it here, but please understand that again, the foundation, the
- 18:09Speaker 1: foundation of the kingdom is humility. And the chief examples,
- 18:15Speaker 1: the model of it, the forerunner of it, the one
- 18:18Speaker 1: who demonstrated it farboard than any of us will ever
- 18:21Speaker 1: be able to do. It's Jesus Christ himself. Amen. All right,
- 18:26Speaker 1: So look at First Corinthians. We're gonna go to chapter
- 18:28Speaker 1: number twelve and verse number twelve, First Corinthians, Chapter twelve,
- 18:33Speaker 1: Verse twelve. For as the body is one, and as
- 18:35Speaker 1: many members, and all the members of that one body
- 18:38Speaker 1: being many, are one body, one body. Listen carefully. Soul
- 18:44Speaker 1: also is Christ one one one amen, for listen. Verse
- 18:50Speaker 1: thirty is very for by one spirit, the Holy Spirit,
- 18:56Speaker 1: the Holy ghosts. For by one spirit we were all
- 19:02Speaker 1: baptized into one body. The Church of Jesus Christ is
- 19:09Speaker 1: one body, one entity, one organization, one bride. Jesus is
- 19:19Speaker 1: coming back for one bride, Amen, one bride, one people, Amen,
- 19:25Speaker 1: those who are called by his name, those who have
- 19:28Speaker 1: been baptized. And he again he knows everybody that he
- 19:33Speaker 1: has baptized. If you haven't been baptized by him, you
- 19:36Speaker 1: haven't been baptized. You're not saved, you're not one of his.
- 19:39Speaker 1: The Bible says, the Foundation of God again, stand sure.
- 19:42Speaker 1: The Lord knows them that are his Amen. And the Spirit,
- 19:46Speaker 1: the Bible says, make of it communicates basically with our
- 19:53Speaker 1: spirit Romans chapter number eight, and testifies and verifies, if
- 19:59Speaker 1: you will, that we are the sons of God. And
- 20:02Speaker 1: we have this privilege to say abba Father, Amen, because amen.
- 20:07Speaker 1: The Spirit, the spirit, the Spirit witnesses. Amen. The Spirit
- 20:12Speaker 1: bears witness in us that we belong to him. Amen.
- 20:17Speaker 1: So again, by one Spirit, the Holy Spirit, we are
- 20:21Speaker 1: all baptized into one body. Fall says, whether Jews or Greeks,
- 20:27Speaker 1: whether slaves are free, and have all been made to
- 20:32Speaker 1: drink into one spirit. Amen again, one Lord, one faith,
- 20:39Speaker 1: one baptism. There's only one church, Amen, one Church of
- 20:43Speaker 1: Jesus Christ verse fourteen. For in fact, the body. When
- 20:47Speaker 1: the policy is talking about the body, now you're just
- 20:49Speaker 1: going to use the human body as an example, Amen,
- 20:52Speaker 1: so that we can certainly understand that, I mean, we
- 20:55Speaker 1: all the body. I got hand, our feet, eyes, ears, Amen,
- 21:02Speaker 1: the knees, and not to mention for whole. We don't
- 21:06Speaker 1: even pay we And it's a shame we so abused
- 21:10Speaker 1: a body because we are so focused on the outward man,
- 21:13Speaker 1: and and we forget about those in inward parts that
- 21:17Speaker 1: are so vital, that are so important. Amen. Our kidneys
- 21:21Speaker 1: for example, our liver, for example, h our heart, Amen,
- 21:27Speaker 1: the the most the muscles on the inside of the
- 21:30Speaker 1: and the ligaments and things of that nature. Those these
- 21:33Speaker 1: are these are the things that we don't see, Amen,
- 21:36Speaker 1: but they're important. They're vital. And this is what the
- 21:39Speaker 1: apostle Paul Is is demonstrating. He says verse fourteen. For
- 21:42Speaker 1: in fact, the body is not one member but many.
- 21:45Speaker 1: We have a lot of moving parts, and anytime something malfunctions,
- 21:50Speaker 1: and I've had several injuries and and uh things that
- 21:57Speaker 1: certainly tempered my mobility for my ability to to do
- 22:02Speaker 1: certain things. Or one uh particular injury that I had
- 22:06Speaker 1: several years ago, I tore a ligament in my thumb,
- 22:09Speaker 1: and uh, over time, my thumb became almost completely immobile.
- 22:17Speaker 1: I was not able to move it. I wasn't able
- 22:19Speaker 1: to bend it, uh flex it at all. And I
- 22:21Speaker 1: had to, Amen, get this. I needed. I needed this thumb,
- 22:25Speaker 1: and I do and I still do need it. And
- 22:27Speaker 1: so amen. When the even though the body, even though
- 22:31Speaker 1: I have another thumb on my other hand, and I
- 22:34Speaker 1: have other fingers, I a man enjoyed, especially being right handed,
- 22:39Speaker 1: I enjoyed the use of and needed this body part.
- 22:43Speaker 1: I just did not dismiss it. Amen, and and and
- 22:46Speaker 1: so Paul says, if the foot should say, because I
- 22:49Speaker 1: am not a hand, I am not of the body.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Is it therefore not of the body? Amen? If the ear,
- 22:56Speaker 1: If the ear should say because I am not an eye,
- 22:59Speaker 1: I I'm not of the body. Is it therefore not
- 23:02Speaker 1: of the body? All of this, all of this, you know,
- 23:05Speaker 1: all of these parts a man belonged to a man,
- 23:09Speaker 1: the body as a whole. That's again what the apostle
- 23:12Speaker 1: Paul is emphasizing here. If the ear should say, because
- 23:15Speaker 1: I am not an eye, I am not of the body,
- 23:19Speaker 1: is it therefore not of the body. If the whole
- 23:22Speaker 1: body were an eye, where it would be the hearing,
- 23:26Speaker 1: If the whole we're hearing, where would be the smelling? Amen?
- 23:30Speaker 1: But God has this is what the Bible says carefully
- 23:34Speaker 1: verse eighteen. God has set the members, the parts, all
- 23:43Speaker 1: of the part. Amen. All of us are members. Never
- 23:47Speaker 1: forget that we are members. And I know sometimes we
- 23:50Speaker 1: only think in terms of our church membership. Amen. And
- 23:54Speaker 1: not again again, Remember it's not about your local church.
- 24:01Speaker 1: The Body of Christ is comprised of all of the
- 24:04Speaker 1: people of God, the Church. The Church, the body of
- 24:07Speaker 1: Christ is comprised of all of the people of God
- 24:10Speaker 1: all over the world, past, present and future, who have
- 24:13Speaker 1: been baptized into Jesus Christ by Jesus Christ. That's who
- 24:20Speaker 1: in that's who is in the church. Amen. And we
- 24:24Speaker 1: are all members of the church, and God has functions
- 24:26Speaker 1: for each and every one of them. When the Bible
- 24:28Speaker 1: teaches here very clearly, it is God who has set
- 24:33Speaker 1: placed the members, each one of them. This is what
- 24:38Speaker 1: the Bible says, in the body, just as he pleased.
- 24:47Speaker 1: And if they were all one member, where would the
- 24:52Speaker 1: body be. So again, we are to be one body,
- 24:59Speaker 1: even though we are different, even though we are unique,
- 25:03Speaker 1: even though we have and we'll have different gifts, abilities, talents, callings, whatever. Amen,
- 25:10Speaker 1: we are steal one body, one body, Amen, different members,
- 25:16Speaker 1: one body. Amen. But now indeed there are many members, Yes,
- 25:22Speaker 1: indeed we have many members, yet one body. Again, let
- 25:28Speaker 1: me emphasize, re emphasize. God has set each of us
- 25:33Speaker 1: within the Body of Christ as he pleased to do
- 25:38Speaker 1: so according a man, to his good pleasure a man,
- 25:41Speaker 1: and it is for the purpose of each member. And
- 25:44Speaker 1: we talked about this now our last session when it's
- 25:47Speaker 1: as it pertains to the gifts. And this is what
- 25:48Speaker 1: the apostle Paul was emphasizing there, that the gifts are
- 25:52Speaker 1: not First of all, they're not ours. I don't own
- 25:55Speaker 1: you don't have ownership of the gift. A man the
- 25:58Speaker 1: gift is not ours a man. The gift. The gifts
- 26:02Speaker 1: are the gifts of the Spirit. They belong to God,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and He by the Holy Spirit. A man chooses to
- 26:10Speaker 1: use the gifts in the body. Not just for again,
- 26:15Speaker 1: my own personal edification and gratification, and for me, certainly,
- 26:19Speaker 1: not to prostitute pimp, if you will, the gift a
- 26:25Speaker 1: man for my own personal gain and benefit. But the
- 26:28Speaker 1: youth of the gifts man. The purpose of the gifts
- 26:32Speaker 1: a man, the manifestation of the Spirit of God working
- 26:35Speaker 1: in the church, is for the benefit of the whole body.
- 26:40Speaker 1: It's for every member of the body, not just again
- 26:45Speaker 1: for a select group, a select a man, a sac or,
- 26:50Speaker 1: a man chosen a division of people, a man who
- 26:54Speaker 1: are super saints, or set apart some kind of way
- 26:59Speaker 1: above everybody body else, to the point where, amen, everybody
- 27:03Speaker 1: else is relegated to some kind of menial status. But no, no, no,
- 27:09Speaker 1: that's not. That's not that's not, that's not. Amen. What
- 27:12Speaker 1: the body is all about God is a man set
- 27:15Speaker 1: the members, all of us in the body. Amen. And
- 27:19Speaker 1: everything is according to his good pleasure, according to his will,
- 27:22Speaker 1: for his purpose, as Jesus said, not my will, but
- 27:26Speaker 1: dying that's how we are all to be. In our mind.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Let this mind be in you. The what did the
- 27:31Speaker 1: apostlepos Let this mind be in you, which was also
- 27:33Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus who made himself no reputation again, humility, humility.
- 27:38Speaker 1: So the kingdom is all about Amen. We are members
- 27:41Speaker 1: in multitude, but yet we are one body in our mission.
- 27:46Speaker 1: What is our mission? Again? Our mission is to amen,
- 27:50Speaker 1: first of all, as Jesus said, to go make disciples amen,
- 27:54Speaker 1: teaching them, training them. Amen. And and certainly in so doing,
- 28:00Speaker 1: when we carry out the main mission that God has
- 28:03Speaker 1: given to us, we bring glory to God. We bring
- 28:06Speaker 1: honor to him. He said, you are the soul of
- 28:07Speaker 1: the earth. You are the You are a city set
- 28:10Speaker 1: on the hill. You are the light of the world. Amen,
- 28:12Speaker 1: and and and let it let it shine. We don't
- 28:14Speaker 1: have to make it. We can let it. If again,
- 28:17Speaker 1: if we would humble ourselves and understand a man, that
- 28:21Speaker 1: we are all a man on the same team as
- 28:26Speaker 1: it were, we have the same mission. We have the
- 28:30Speaker 1: same goal, a man to glorify God, not to seek
- 28:33Speaker 1: glory for ourselves. Again, when we have that mindset, Amen,
- 28:39Speaker 1: and and and and I mean we it's on the devil,
- 28:43Speaker 1: and the wen't have to work, we wouldn't even have
- 28:45Speaker 1: to even worry about the devil. Amen. But whenever we
- 28:50Speaker 1: fail to know this, when we fail to understand this,
- 28:54Speaker 1: when we failed to a man, abide in the calling
- 28:58Speaker 1: a man, and to understand the use of the gifts
- 29:02Speaker 1: that have been given to us, Amen, for the unity
- 29:04Speaker 1: and edification of the whole body. This is this is
- 29:07Speaker 1: when self centered, schism, self centered, selfish, all about me, uh,
- 29:16Speaker 1: schism is waiting to disrupt and to derail a man
- 29:22Speaker 1: our mission. Amen. And and this is this is this
- 29:26Speaker 1: is a strategy. This is this, This is one of
- 29:29Speaker 1: the strategies of the devil, one of his many tactics.
- 29:32Speaker 1: That he uses a man. He loves division, and that
- 29:36Speaker 1: division can come again. We can we can even mean
- 29:40Speaker 1: well in promoting people, in in lifting people up and
- 29:45Speaker 1: exalting and uh uh and and and by and by
- 29:52Speaker 1: by doing so, we relegate or we minimize the rest
- 29:58Speaker 1: of the folk to a different status. Amen, and and
- 30:01Speaker 1: and and that's this this that's that's just it's just
- 30:05Speaker 1: it's it's problematic in the church. I mean, that's what
- 30:07Speaker 1: it is. It's very very problematic. Amen. In the church
- 30:12Speaker 1: when we don't know, when we don't understand, and when
- 30:16Speaker 1: we don't obey, in abiding a man within the calling, Amen,
- 30:21Speaker 1: and doing what God has gifted us to do with
- 30:24Speaker 1: the talents whatever. If he gave us one talent, we
- 30:26Speaker 1: use that. If he gave us two talents, we use
- 30:28Speaker 1: I'm talking to using the parable as an example, how
- 30:32Speaker 1: the Lord gave to each person according to their ability.
- 30:36Speaker 1: One man received one talent, one man received two talents,
- 30:39Speaker 1: one man received five talents. It is God who places
- 30:43Speaker 1: the members in the body as he pleases. Don't forget that, Amen.
- 30:47Speaker 1: This is all about what God is accomplishing through us,
- 30:50Speaker 1: And it's not about us. Amen. It's for His glory,
- 30:53Speaker 1: not our glory. But we are all edified, Amen, We're
- 30:58Speaker 1: all built up, we're all established. We're all a man
- 31:03Speaker 1: glorified together with Him. When we a man walk in
- 31:08Speaker 1: this unity of the faith as He has a man
- 31:12Speaker 1: called for us to do. The eye cannot say to
- 31:15Speaker 1: the hand, I have no need of you, a man,
- 31:19Speaker 1: nor again the head to the feet, I have no
- 31:22Speaker 1: need of you.
- 31:24Speaker 2: No.
- 31:24Speaker 1: Listen what Paul says verse twenty two, much rother those
- 31:27Speaker 1: members of the body which seem to be weaker, which
- 31:32Speaker 1: seemed to be not unnecessary, which seemed to be well,
- 31:39Speaker 1: we don't have insignificant, Paul says, those parts are necessary. Listen,
- 31:46Speaker 1: my little, my little again. I spoke earlier about my thumb,
- 31:51Speaker 1: my little small pinky toe, whatever the name of it is,
- 31:56Speaker 1: my little toe on each foot. I want, I want
- 32:00Speaker 1: it functioning. I need it functioning. Anytime I I I
- 32:05Speaker 1: bang my my if I if I do uh pain anywhere,
- 32:10Speaker 1: uh anything that happens to one part of the body.
- 32:14Speaker 1: If I if I if I bang my elball, hit
- 32:18Speaker 1: my hand, or bump my head, I mean the every
- 32:22Speaker 1: member of the body, uh seems and especially if the
- 32:26Speaker 1: pain is severe. I mean, and we've all and surely
- 32:30Speaker 1: if you haven't, if you live long enough, you will, Amen,
- 32:34Speaker 1: You'll you'll experience that every part of the body seems
- 32:38Speaker 1: to participate. Amen. Uh seems to be affected, and it
- 32:42Speaker 1: is affected in in many regards by whatever it is
- 32:47Speaker 1: that we're going through. So we don't dismiss, amen, the hand,
- 32:51Speaker 1: we don't dismiss the head, We don't dismiss the feet, Amen,
- 32:55Speaker 1: and say I have no need of you, Amen, No much.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Rather those members of the body Verse twenty two which
- 33:02Speaker 1: seem to be weaker, unnecessary. Again, this is our misconception, Amen,
- 33:09Speaker 1: and is deception actually of the devil, for us to
- 33:13Speaker 1: dismiss people in the church, Amen, people in the body
- 33:16Speaker 1: of Christ, as if they are insignificant because they don't
- 33:19Speaker 1: have a title, because their voice is not seen, because
- 33:22Speaker 1: they are not a man visible in the spotlight. Amen,
- 33:27Speaker 1: those members of the body verse twenty three. Again, which
- 33:30Speaker 1: we think to be less honorable, Paul says, on these
- 33:36Speaker 1: we bestow greater honor. Greater honor on the ones that
- 33:43Speaker 1: we think to be less honorable, and our unpresentable parts, Amen,
- 33:52Speaker 1: have greater modesty, sadly, sadly, sadly, sadly, folks. Amen. And
- 33:58Speaker 1: this is our flesh again, this is the spirit of pride,
- 34:01Speaker 1: This is the this is the craftiness of the enemy
- 34:04Speaker 1: at work. Amen. It's our our egos that go to work.
- 34:09Speaker 1: And sometimes, of course we have our little selfish hidden agendas,
- 34:15Speaker 1: selfish ambitions and desires to be pre eminent. Amen. We
- 34:22Speaker 1: want to be praised, we want to be adored, we
- 34:24Speaker 1: want to be seen, we want to be heard and
- 34:27Speaker 1: exalted in the eyes of man. And Jesus said, by
- 34:29Speaker 1: the way, when you get your praises of man. Guess what,
- 34:32Speaker 1: You've already gotten your reward. Amen, You've already gotten your
- 34:36Speaker 1: reward when amen, people are praising you and exalting you
- 34:40Speaker 1: and loving on you and adoring you and applauding you
- 34:44Speaker 1: and lifting you up and pumping you up. And yeah, yeah,
- 34:48Speaker 1: you've gotten your reward. Amen.
- 34:51Speaker 2: He that will be great among you, let him be
- 34:54Speaker 2: your slaves.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Yes, man. But this un sadly, again, it is a
- 35:02Speaker 1: common tendency on our part to dismiss and to discount, Amen,
- 35:07Speaker 1: members of the body that we deem to be less important. Uh,
- 35:11Speaker 1: people that we see amen, as as having less value,
- 35:16Speaker 1: if you will, to the ministry and to the mission.
- 35:20Speaker 1: But Paul says again here, the greater, the greater honor
- 35:26Speaker 1: is to be bestowed upon these members of the body, Amen,
- 35:32Speaker 1: that we think to be less honorable. Amen. Again, these
- 35:36Speaker 1: are those who are not in the spotlight. These are
- 35:39Speaker 1: those who are not seated in the high chairs, in
- 35:43Speaker 1: the high places. Amen. They are not seen by the cameras. Amen,
- 35:48Speaker 1: they're not heard, Amen, they're not even visible in the
- 35:54Speaker 1: in the in the congregation, often as being people that
- 35:58Speaker 1: are of note, people of of prominence, as it were,
- 36:04Speaker 1: they're not called out, they're not singled out. They're not
- 36:07Speaker 1: a man applauded and and and but but but they're
- 36:10Speaker 1: but they're but they're foundational. They are fundamental. They are vital.
- 36:17Speaker 1: They're just as vital as your oteries are. They're just
- 36:20Speaker 1: as vital as the blood that roll flows through your veins.
- 36:24Speaker 1: They're just as vital as the muscles and the tendons
- 36:27Speaker 1: and all of the tissues that are in your body.
- 36:30Speaker 1: They're just as vital as your kidneys are, as your
- 36:33Speaker 1: lungs are. They're just as vital, even though they're not seen.
- 36:37Speaker 1: You don't see your lungs. You don't see your kidneys.
- 36:39Speaker 1: You don't see your heart, Amen. You don't see your arteries.
- 36:43Speaker 1: You don't see the tissues amen in your body. Amen.
- 36:46Speaker 1: You don't see your brain.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Amen.
- 36:50Speaker 1: But you know you need them, Amen, and they are important. Amen.
- 37:00Speaker 1: So amen, we are to bestole greater honor on these parts.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Verse twenty four says, our presentable parts have no need.
- 37:14Speaker 1: The spotlight is already on you. They have no need.
- 37:17Speaker 1: But God composed the body having. This is what God did.
- 37:22Speaker 1: This is how God sees, This is how God works
- 37:24Speaker 1: and operates. You want to know the mind of God
- 37:26Speaker 1: and how he again, it's humility. It's on the low,
- 37:31Speaker 1: it's on the lower things, the things that are despised.
- 37:34Speaker 1: God has chosen the weak things of this world. Paul says,
- 37:38Speaker 1: things that are despised. Not many mighty, not many noble, Amen,
- 37:44Speaker 1: not many princes of this world, not many celebrities. God
- 37:48Speaker 1: doesn't need. He is the celebrity. He is the majob
- 37:52Speaker 1: right head. Amen. So so so, the Bible says God
- 37:59Speaker 1: composed the body, having given greater honor to that part
- 38:04Speaker 1: which lacks it, Amen, giving greater honor to the part
- 38:11Speaker 1: that lack That there should be no schism in the body,
- 38:19Speaker 1: but that the members or watch it should have the
- 38:23Speaker 1: same care for one another. Absolutely, absolutely, ladies and gentlemen,
- 38:29Speaker 1: Church of Living God, there cannot that must not. We
- 38:32Speaker 1: dare not again tricker the enemy. We absolutely must not
- 38:39Speaker 1: have respective persons in the Church of Jesus Christ. No, no, ma'am,
- 38:45Speaker 1: no sir.
- 38:46Speaker 2: All members of the body should have the same care,
- 38:51Speaker 2: should have the same compassion, should have the same love
- 38:55Speaker 2: for each and every member of the.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Body, says in verse twenty six. If one member suffers,
- 39:02Speaker 1: all the members suffer with it, or if one member
- 39:05Speaker 1: is honored, all the members rejoice with it. We rejoice
- 39:09Speaker 1: with them that rejoice. We weep with them that weep.
- 39:13Speaker 1: Together one body, we celebrate one another. We encourage one
- 39:18Speaker 1: another a man, we care for one another as the
- 39:22Speaker 1: body of Christ. Paul says, now you are the body
- 39:24Speaker 1: of Christ and members individually. Yes we are different, Yes
- 39:28Speaker 1: we are unique. Yes we are members in singularity. But together, comprise, together,
- 39:35Speaker 1: put together, place together a man, by God himself, we
- 39:40Speaker 1: make up the Body of Christ. You are, you are,
- 39:45Speaker 1: I am. We are all together collectively we are the
- 39:49Speaker 1: Body of Christ. Even though again we are members individually.
- 39:54Speaker 1: God has appointed these in the church, first apostles, second prophets,
- 39:59Speaker 1: third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations,
- 40:04Speaker 1: varieties of tongues. But listen verse twenty nine. Past says
- 40:08Speaker 1: are all apostles? Of course, this is highly rhetoricable. We
- 40:13Speaker 1: know the answer to this question and the following questions.
- 40:15Speaker 1: Are all apostles? No? Are all profits?
- 40:19Speaker 2: No?
- 40:20Speaker 1: Are all teachers? No? Are all workers of miracles? No?
- 40:25Speaker 1: Do all have gifts of healings? No? Do all speak
- 40:29Speaker 1: with tongues? No? Do all interpret? No? But earnestly, he says,
- 40:34Speaker 1: desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a
- 40:41Speaker 1: more excellent way, heymen, which we will delve into in
- 40:47Speaker 1: our next session. Fund this rock, Jesus says, I will
- 40:51Speaker 1: build my church in the gates of Hell shall not
- 40:53Speaker 1: prevail against it. The gates of Hell will not be
- 40:57Speaker 1: able to stand against the onslaught the offensive. We are
- 41:01Speaker 1: to be on the offensive, not the defensive the gates
- 41:05Speaker 1: of hell. Listen, if we are one, if we are one,
- 41:09Speaker 1: if we are unified as the True Church of Living God,
- 41:14Speaker 1: that's who we are to be. We are one, we
- 41:16Speaker 1: are one body. We are I mean distinctive as members,
- 41:21Speaker 1: but yet we are one body on one mission. And
- 41:25Speaker 1: schism in the body is counter productive. Schism in the body,
- 41:29Speaker 1: sex in the body, divisions in the body, clicks, and
- 41:33Speaker 1: so forth in the body. They are distracting to the church,
- 41:36Speaker 1: distracting to the mission. Counterproductive again, a man, and I
- 41:42Speaker 1: believe that I listen, listen, I'm closing. I'm closing. I'm closing.
- 41:47Speaker 1: I believe this is my belief, Okay. I believe that
- 41:52Speaker 1: the True Church of Jesus Christ will rise up, will prevail. Amen. Again,
- 42:00Speaker 1: And that's not just me talking. I base it upon
- 42:03Speaker 1: the word of God, the promises of God, Amen, and
- 42:06Speaker 1: the truth of the word of God. Amen. And what
- 42:09Speaker 1: Jesus again himself said, I'm going to build my and
- 42:11Speaker 1: the gates of all shall not prevail, cannot prevail, will
- 42:14Speaker 1: not prevail. We prevail. We are more than conquerors. We
- 42:18Speaker 1: amen to whom a man Christ has given victory. A
- 42:22Speaker 1: man made us, a man kings and priests with him,
- 42:25Speaker 1: the Bible said, will reign with him, rude with him. Amen,
- 42:28Speaker 1: we will be glorified. Together with him, we overcome, we persevere. Amen.
- 42:33Speaker 1: And it's because of the blood of the Lamb. And
- 42:36Speaker 1: because Jesus Amen did not die in vain, but he
- 42:39Speaker 1: died Amen for us. Amen. To have life, to have
- 42:43Speaker 1: it more abundantly. Amen. To be one. He prayed even
- 42:46Speaker 1: in Oh My God, John chapter number seventeen, and we
- 42:49Speaker 1: call it the high priestly Prayer of Jesus. He prayed
- 42:52Speaker 1: that they may be one. Even as we are one
- 42:57Speaker 1: one Lord, one faith, one Baptist, one church, one bride,
- 43:02Speaker 1: one body, we are one body in Him. Father. Will
- 43:07Speaker 1: you help us today, Lord, help us today, open our
- 43:10Speaker 1: eyes and ears, our understanding. Lord, tear down pride and
- 43:15Speaker 1: arrogance and haughtiness, O God, Lord, Lord Lord, let us
- 43:19Speaker 1: have a spirit of humility, just as you're the mind
- 43:21Speaker 1: that you had. Amen. Not seeking our own glory, seeking
- 43:26Speaker 1: our own honor, not our will, Lord, but your will
- 43:29Speaker 1: be done in us and through us, Lord, that you
- 43:31Speaker 1: will be glorified in the earth, your people, Lord, that
- 43:34Speaker 1: are called by your name, out of every nation, Kendrick
- 43:37Speaker 1: and Tong, we pray, Lord, that your spirit will move
- 43:40Speaker 1: in us, Oh God, work in us, Oh God, and
- 43:43Speaker 1: bring us to this place of unity, a man that
- 43:46Speaker 1: you pray. You prayed for a man, that we would
- 43:49Speaker 1: be one in you, God, be glorified today. That your word,
- 43:54Speaker 1: your spirit, and your power fall on Amen us. Let
- 43:58Speaker 1: us have listening ears and obedient art, get the glory
- 44:01Speaker 1: out of our lives, as we know that you are
- 44:04Speaker 1: and will be glorified in all things. In Jesus' name,
- 44:07Speaker 1: we pray, give thanks, Amen and Amen. All right, God
- 44:10Speaker 1: bless you Jesus NA