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Personal Giftedness: Placed In The Body 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 What part of the body are you? •Every part is vital. •Are you a hand? Ear? Eye? Foot? •Each person in the body is vital, indispensible and divinely placed in the church. The Complex Nature of the Church •1 Corinthians 12:12-- “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.” The One Body United in One Spirit •1 Corinthians 12:13 -For we were all baptized (in) one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. •Many Parts Serve Many Purposes •1 Corinthians 12:14-17 •Foot is not a hand but is still part of the body. •Ear is not an eye but is still a part of the body. Each part serves the function for which it was formed. •The Divinely Ordered Nature of the body • Vs. 18 -- But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. •God has assigned each of the parts •Vs. 21-24 •Eye cannot say it doesn’t need the hand. •Head cannot tell the feet it doesn’t need them. •“…But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it…” •The Body must not be divided •Vs. 25-26 -- so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. •Your Divine Giftedness •Vs. 27 -- Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.