I AM PART OF CHRIST'S BODY

“For as we have many  members  in one  body, but all  the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are  one body in Christ, and  individually members of  one another.”  Rom12:45

“Do you not know that  your bodies are members of  Christ? Shall  I then take the members  of Christ  and  make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!  Or do you not know that he who is joined  to a harlot is one  body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall  become one flesh." But  he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit  with Him.” 1Cor6:15-17

“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. 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? But  now indeed there are many members, yet  one body. And the eye  cannot  say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head  to the  feet, "I have no need of  you."  No, much rather, those  members  of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. And those members of  the body  which we think  to be less honorable, on  these we bestow greater  honor;  and our unpresentable parts  have greater  modesty, but our presentable parts have  no need. But  God composed the body,  having  given greater honor to that part which lacks  it, that  there should  be no schism in the body, but that the members  should have  the same care for one  another. And if  one member suffers, all  the members suffer  with it; or if  one member is honored,  all  the members rejoice  with it.  Now  you are  the body of Christ, and members individually.”1Cor12:12-27

“Wives, submit to your  own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is  head of the  wife,  as also Christ is head of  the  church; and  He is the Savior  of  the body...So husbands ought to love their own wives as their  own bodies;  he who loves his wife  loves  himself.  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord  does the church.  For we are members of  His body, of His flesh and of  His bones. "For this reason a man shall  leave his father and mother  and be  joined  to his wife, and the two shall  become one  flesh." This is a great mystery, but  I speak concerning Christ  and the church.” Eph5:22-32
“And  He is the head of  the body, the  church,  who is the beginning, the firstborn  from the dead, that  in all  things He may have  the preeminence.”  Col1:18

“Let no one cheat you of  your reward, taking delight in  false  humility and  worship of  angels, intruding  into those  things which he has not seen,  vainly puffed up by his  fleshly mind, and  not holding fast  to the Head,  from whom  all  the body,  nourished and knit  together by joints  and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from  God. Therefore, if  you died with Christ from the basic principles of  the world,  why, as though living in the world,  do you subject  yourselves  to regulations Do not touch, do not taste, do not  handle,"  Col2:18-19

Jesus  is the  head, we as the church are  His body.  We as individual  Christians are  members (parts) of His body. The life in us is His, the purpose that works in us is His, the glory is His.

We as individual parts do not have an independent purpose  that we want  to fulfill  or destiny  to walk into.  We derive all that we are and do from Him.  He is our  source,  our head. He leads, we follow, He directs, we do, in the same  way a normal person functions.

“For in Him we live and  move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have  said, 'For we are also His offspring.'”Acts17:28

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