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If We Are the
Body…
“The church is an eternal
organism in the earth,
doing the will of God and
accomplishing the
purpose of God.”
• 1 John 5:7 – “For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one.”
• Hebrews 10:5-7 – “Wherefore when
He cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not, but a body hast thou prepared
Me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
volume of the book it is written of
me,) to do Thy will, O God.”
• Ephesians 1:15-23 – “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your
faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not
to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his
calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in
the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of His
power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of
His mighty power, Which He wrought in Christ, when He
raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand
in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power,
and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not
only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath
put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head
over all things to the church, Which is His body, the fulness
of Him that filleth all in all.”
• 1 Corinthians 12:12 – “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.”
• 1 Corinthians 1:10 – “Now I beseech
you, brethren, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak
the same thing, and that there be no
divisions among you; but that ye be
perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.”
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qualities
of Christ
AS THE
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priorities
of His
Church
But if we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching?
Why aren't His hands healing?
Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is
a way?
There is a way
We MUST embody the WORD of God
We MUST embody the IMAGE of God
We MUST embody the POWER of God
We MUST embody the LIFE of God
We MUST embody the GLORY of God
We MUST embody the LOVE of God
The word…
Expository
preaching
The
IMAGE…
BIBLICAL
Discipleship
The power…
Global missions
The LIFE…
Exponential
reproduction
The
GLORY…
SPIRITED
Worship
The LOVe…
Sacrificial LOve
But if we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching?
Why aren't His hands healing?
Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is
a way?
There is a way
We MUST embody the WORD of God
We MUST embody the IMAGE of God
We MUST embody the POWER of God
We MUST embody the LIFE of God
We MUST embody the GLORY of God
We MUST embody the LOVE of God
We MUST embody the LIGHT of God
The LIGHT…
Christlike
Holiness
•1 John 1:5 – “This
then is the message
which we have heard
of Him, and declare
unto you, that God is
light, and in Him is
no darkness at all.”
• Colossians 1:15 – “Who is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of every creature”
• John 8:12 – “Then spake Jesus again unto
them, saying, I am the light of the world: he
that followeth me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life.”
• John 9:5 – “As long as I am in the world, I
am the light of the world.”
• John 11:9-10 – “Jesus answered, Are there
not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk
in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth
the light of this world. But if a man walk in
the night, he stumbleth, because there is no
light in him.”
• Acts 1:8-10 – “But ye shall receive
power, after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you: and ye shall be
witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth.
And when He had spoken these things,
while they beheld, He was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their
sight. And while they looked
stedfastly toward heaven as He went
up, behold, two men stood by them in
white apparel…”
• 2 Corinthians 4:4 – “In whom the god of this
world hath blinded the minds of them which
believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them.”
• Philippians 2:14-15 – “Do all things without
murmurings and disputings: That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as
lights in the world”
• 2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God, who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in
our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
• Genesis 1:16 – “And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: he made the
stars also.”
• Malachi 4:1-2 – “For, behold, the day cometh,
that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud,
yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:
and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear
my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise
with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth,
and grow up as calves of the stall.”
• John 1:4 - In <en> him <autos> was <en> life
<zoe>; and <kai> the life <zoe> was <en> the
light <phos> of men <anthropos>.
• John 1:5 - And <kai> the light <phos> shineth
<phaino> in <en> darkness <skotia>; and <kai>
the darkness <skotia> comprehended
<katalambano> it <autos> not <ou>.
• Matthew 5:16 - Let your <humon> light <phos>
so <houto> shine <lampo> before
<emprosthen> men <anthropos>, that <hopos>
they may see <eido> your <humon> good
<kalos> works <ergon>, and <kai> glorify
<doxazo> your <humon> Father <pater> which
<ho> is in <en> heaven <ouranos>.
• Ephesians 5:8 – “For <gar> ye were <en>
sometimes <pote> darkness <skotos>, but
<de> now <nun> are ye light <phos> in <en>
the Lord <kurios>: walk <peripateo> as <hos>
children <teknon> of light <phos>:”
• Luke 11:35 - Take heed <skopeo> therefore
<oun> that the light <phos> which <ho> is in
<en> thee <soi> be <esti> not <me> darkness
<skotos>.
• Philippians 2:14-16 – “Do all things
without murmurings and disputings:
That ye may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without
rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye
shine as lights in the world;
Holding forth the word of life; that I
may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I
have not run in vain, neither laboured
in vain.”
• Deuteronomy 33:13-14 – “And of
Joseph he said, Blessed of the
LORD be his land, for the precious
things of heaven, for the dew, and
for the deep that coucheth
beneath, And for the precious
fruits brought forth by the sun,
and for the precious things put
forth by the moon”
• Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Galatians 5:22-26 – “But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. And they that are
Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let
us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be
desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
envying one another.”
• Job 31:26 – “If I beheld the sun when it
shined, or the moon walking in
brightness”
• Isaiah 30:26(a) – “Moreover the light of
the moon shall be as the light of the
sun,…”
• Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Galatians 5:22-26 – “But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. And they that are
Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let
us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be
desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
envying one another.”
• Every person is fully acquainted with the
Biblical PERSPECTIVE of holiness.
…(ARE YOU?)
• God setting me apart.
• 1 Corinthians 1:2 – “Unto the church of God which
is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ
Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place
call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
theirs and ours”
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – “Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be
not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves
with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit
the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but
ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God.”
• Hebrews 10:10 – “By the which
will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all.”
• Acts 20:32 – “And now,
brethren, I commend you to
God, and to the word of his
grace, which is able to build
you up, and to give you an
inheritance among all them
which are sanctified.”
• Genesis 2:3 – “And God
blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it:
because that in it he had
rested from all his work
which God created and
made.”
• God setting me apart.
• God setting me apart from the world
• Genesis 2:3 – “And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had
rested from all his work which God created
and made.”
• Ephesians 2:3 – “Among whom also we all
had our conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind; and were by nature the
children of wrath, even as others.”
• 1 John 2:16 – “For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is
of the world.”
•2 Timothy 2:26 – “And
that they may recover
themselves out of the
snare of the devil, who
are taken captive by
him at his will.”
• God setting us apart.
• God setting us apart from the world
• God setting us apart from the world and unto something.
• It’s not just “FROM” but “to”.
• Acts 26:18 – “To open their
eyes, and to turn them from
darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan unto God,
that they may receive
forgiveness of sins, and
inheritance among them which
are sanctified by faith that is in
me.”
• It’s not just “FROM” but “TO”.
• It’s not just “OFF” but “ON”.
• Ephesians 4:22-24 – “That ye put
off concerning the former
conversation the old man, which
is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts; And be renewed in
the spirit of your mind; And that
ye put on the new man, which
after God is created in
righteousness and true
holiness.”
• It’s not just “FROM” but “TO”.
• It’s not just “OFF” but “ON”.
• It’s not just “OUT” but “IN”.
• 1 Peter 2:9 – “But ye are a
chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a
peculiar people; that ye
should shew forth the praises
of him who hath called you
out of darkness into His
marvellous light”
• Matthew 12:43-45 – “When the unclean
spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth
none. Then he saith, I will return into my
house from whence I came out; and when
he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and
garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with
himself seven other spirits more wicked than
himself, and they enter in and dwell there:
and the last state of that man is worse than
the first. Even so shall it be also unto this
wicked generation.”
• Holy people are those who manifest the fruit of the Spirit
… IS THAT YOU ?
• Galatians 5:19-23 – “Now the works of the
flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like: of the which I tell you before, as
I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance: against
such there is no law.”
• Holiness involves 3 entities:
• Holiness involves 3 entities:
• God
• Me
• The world
• Holiness involves 3 entities:
• It is God’s will.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 – “For this is the
will of God, even your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication:
That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and
honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence,
even as the Gentiles which know not God:
That no man go beyond and defraud his
brother in any matter: because that the
Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also
have forewarned you and testified. For
God hath not called us unto uncleanness,
but unto holiness. He therefore that
despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who
hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.”
• Holiness involves 3 entities:
• It is God’s will.
• It is MY calling.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 – “For this is the
will of God, even your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication:
That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and
honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence,
even as the Gentiles which know not God:
That no man go beyond and defraud his
brother in any matter: because that the
Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also
have forewarned you and testified. For
God hath not called us unto uncleanness,
but unto holiness. He therefore that
despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who
hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.”
• Holiness involves 3 entities:
• It is God’s will.
• It is MY calling.
• It is the world’s only hope.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3 – “For this is the will of
God, even your sanctification, that ye should
abstain from fornication…”
• 1 Thessalonians 4:7 – “For God hath not
called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness.”
• Philippians 2:14-16 – “Do all things without
murmurings and disputings: That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as
lights in the world; Holding forth the word
of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ,
that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in
vain.”
• Holiness is not an end in itself:
Holiness is not an end in itself:
• It is not just holding forth, it is also …laying aside!
• Philippians 2:14-16 – “Do all things
without murmurings and
disputings: That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of
God, without rebuke, in the midst of
a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom ye shine as lights in
the world; Holding forth the word
of life; that I may rejoice in the day
of Christ, that I have not run in vain,
neither laboured in vain.”
• 1 Peter 1:13-16 – “Wherefore gird
up the loins of your mind, be sober,
and hope to the end for the grace
that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ; As
obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the
former lusts in your ignorance:
But as he which hath called you is
holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation; Because it is written,
Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
• 1 Peter 2:1-5 – “Wherefore laying aside all
malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and
envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn
babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that
ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted
that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto
a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively
stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
• 1 Peter 2:9 – “But ye are a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye should shew forth the praises
of Him who hath called you out of darkness into
His marvellous light”
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1-7 – “Furthermore then we beseech you,
brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have
received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so
ye would abound more and more. For ye know what
commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is
the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should
abstain from fornication: That every one of you should
know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and
honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the
Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond
and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the
Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have
forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called
us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.”
• 1 Thessalonians 4:12 – “That ye may walk honestly
toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack
of nothing.”
• Every person is fully acquainted with the Biblical
PERSPECTIVE of holiness.
• Every person is fully living out the Biblical SCOPE
of holiness.
…(ARE YOU?)
The scope of holiness:
• It has to do with our relationship to our bodies.
• The scope of holiness:
• It has to do with our relationship to our bodies.
• It has to do with our relationship to our brethren.
• 1 John 2:8-10 - Again <palin>, a new <kainos>
commandment <entole> I write <grapho> unto you
<humin>, which thing <hos> is <esti> true <alethes> in
<en> him <autos> and <kai> in <en> you <humin>:
because <hoti> the darkness <skotia> is past <parago>, and
<kai> the true <alethinos> light <phos> now <ede>
shineth <phaino>. He that saith <lego> he is <einai> in
<en> the light <phos>, and <kai> hateth <miseo> his
<autos> brother <adelphos>, is <esti> in <en> darkness
<skotia> even until <heos> now <arti>. He that loveth
<agapao> his <autos> brother <adelphos> abideth
<meno> in <en> the light <phos>, and <kai> there is
<esti> none <ou> occasion of stumbling <skandalon> in
<en> him <autos>.
• Philippians 2:14-16 – “Do all things
without murmurings and
disputings: That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of
God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom ye shine as lights in
the world; Holding forth the word
of life; that I may rejoice in the day
of Christ, that I have not run in vain,
neither laboured in vain.”
But if we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching?
Why aren't His hands healing?
Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is
a way?
There is a way
We MUST embody the WORD of God
We MUST embody the IMAGE of God
We MUST embody the POWER of God
We MUST embody the LIFE of God
We MUST embody the GLORY of God
We MUST embody the LOVE of God
We MUST embody the LIGHT of God