Just As A Body, Though One, Has Many Parts, But All Its Many Parts Form One Body, So It Is With Christ
New Wine, New Powers, New Freedoms
1 CORINTHIANS 12:12
“For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.”
I Corinthians 12:12 NKJV
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We Spirit filled believers are all individual parts of God's body (the church); we all have an individual part to play in our service to God and are blessed with individual gifts, that we can serve accordingly to do our part effectively within the body of Christ, and help and encourage one another; but the same Spirit is the source of them all
(1 CORINTHIANS 12:4)
“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be?”
I Corinthians 12:13-19 NKJV
We all have a part to play, to serve God, not to please ourselves, but as He pleases.
He has allocated us our individual parts and gifts according to His will; we can't all choose the same part or have the same gifts, we must except our place, and serve God as He see's fit.
Only then can God work through us all individually to bring us together like a well oiled machine to fulfil God’s plans and purposes.
The old church, put together by the likes of the Pharisees, was never meant to operate or be led by one Pastor, Vicar, or minister; that was man’s church, put together in their own strength according to their own plans and purposes.
Whilst God used the old man’s church for over two thousand years, it’s limited power was to become in time depleted.
The old man made wine was to run out and replaced with the new in such a time as this.
My beloved, the church was always meant to operate as an Apostolic movement, led by Christ Jesus, who is the head.
And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Ephesians 4:11-16 NKJV
When Christ performed the first recorded miracle, He turned water into wine (JOHN 2:1-11).
In answering Mary when she asked Him to help because at the wedding ceremony the wine was embarrassingly depleted, Jesus said, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.””
John 2:4 NKJV
Six jars were filled with water and then supernaturally Jesus turned water into wine.
The whole process was a prophetic message for us believers today, for His time has now come.
The water filled jars represent the new power placed within some church members of today, His chosen elite.
The old has gone and the new is here.
That is why we have seen thousands of churches closed over the past couple of years throughout Europe alone.
But today Jesus time has come and the new wine is being poured into His specially prepared wine skins; His chosen people who have or are being prepared for such a time as this.
With new wine comes new power and freedoms to serve at higher levels. Jesus said, ““Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”
John 14:12-14 NKJV
My beloved that time has come; man’s old church has all but closed down and the new is here.
Some seem to be hanging on to the old, for they think the old is better (LUKE 5:39).
But my beloved, to receive the new, one must submit, let go of the old and believe on the new.
He wants to use you mightily and will if you stand aside and believe.
Jesus said, “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ””
Luke 5:36-39 NKJV
To receive the new, one must let go of the old and embrace the new.
God in us will move through the whole congregation as an Apostlc movement, rather than a place of religious preaching from a minister to his congregation.
They shall all become active members of Christ body of people, not just listeners, and shall become a power house of worship and prayer, unified under the only head, Jesus Christ.
As a result, we are to witness more and more signs and wonders and the supernatural powers of God, such as healing and deliverance, and supernatural events like never seen before.
But we must except that not everyone will be an Apostle or a Prophet, nor will everyone be a teacher or a Pastor, or a evangelist; but everyone will fall into at least one of these five categories and be spiritually gifted to operate accordingly.
My beloved, every work and spiritual gift is important that we can all work effectively together for God’s glory to bring about His plans and purposes.
Therefore regardless of your calling which can change from season to season, be thankful, after all, it’s not about “me,” but He who lives in me.
Be effective and efficient by God’s leadership, and don’t become complacent or lazy, focused on pleasing God, not people.
It’s about reaching the lost sheep of Israel by sharing the Good News all around the world.
Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords; He is God, yet He came to serve.
He humbled Himself and lived life as a slave, (PHILIPPIANS 2:5-6) every moment a sacrifice for you and me.
He even at the last supper, washed the feet of His disciples (JOHN 13:5-12), and then finally gave up His life on a cross to pay the debt of sin that you and I might live.
Surely, we can dedicate ourselves to service without any expectation of something in return.
Jesus said, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”
John 15:16 NKJV
If you have received Christ, you are more than privileged, for God knowing all your faults and failures, chose you to be His very own.
He chose you to be productive in His strength, not yours, and for His glory, not yours, but as a result, you have it all.
Whatever trials and challenges you face, the victory is already yours through Christ (ROMANS 8:37).
Furthermore, you have the confident hope of eternal life in paradise, and the promise extends to your children and loved ones, as many as the Lord chooses to call (ACTS 2:39).
Therefore rejoice! And be thankful; do your part within in the body of Christ by the leading of the Holy Spirit. Support, encourage, and help one another and continue sharing the Good News in the streets and communities.
Jesus said, “: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
Matthew 10:5-8 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
