Friday, June 24, 2016

The Body of Christ

Has the world really seen Christ in the earth? He was crucified and there were not a bone broken in his body. He hung his head and gave up his spirit and had not been decapitated. He was laid in the tomb and on the third day he arose. Those who went to the tomb the third day did not see the body of Christ because he got up. You are only able to get up if you are not dead. Christ is not dead and lives here in the eath, the question is, has the world seen him?  Yes his disciples saw him after his resurrection and before he ascended into heaven, but has the world today seen Christ in the earth as he still lives.
He commanded his disciples before ascending into heaven in Matthew 28:19 & 20 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit 20) teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."  
 Christ is alive and dwells not simply among us but in us, however, has the world seen him?  We are his body and he is the head of this body, as the head leads the body is to follow. If we are indeed the body we should be following the head from which we receive instructions and direction. The head has instructed it's body to love one another as he has loved us,  not growing weary in weIl doing. We are to be holy as he the head is holy, for as he is in the earth so are we. We have not been instructed in anything which Christ our Lord had not done walking the earth clothed in flesh. It is because of his expamples to us and his spirit alive  in us that we are inabled to do all that he commands.  He is forever faithful, continually doing just as he promised, to be with us always. Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Sprit who dwells in you."  We are the body of Christ, and we shall follow as he, the head leads.

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