SEE CHRIST THROUGH THE DIFFERENCES . God has not called us to be one member; rather He called us to be one body in Christ Jesus. If all the believers in Christ become one member in Christ, then the body of Christ is lost. Therefore, to keep the body of Christ, the believers therein must be different members from one another. As it is written, “And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.” (1 Corinthians 12:19-20) . Ephesians (4:4-6) says: “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Ephesians 4:4-6). However, it is time to notice the differences, the varieties and the multiples that became one in each of the Unity listed. It is not the unity of homology; rather it is the unity of diversity. 1. There is one Body, but different members (1 Corinthians 12:12-14) 2. There is one Spirit, but different gifts and manifestations (1 Corinthians 12:4, 7-11) 3. There is one Hope and one Amen, but different promises (2 Corinthians 1:20) 4. There is one Lord, but different administrations (1 Corinthians 12:5) 5. There is one Faith, but different measures (Romans 12:3) 6. There is one Baptism, but different assignments (Matthew 20:22-24) 7. There is one God and Father of all, but different operations (1 Corinthians 12:6) . It is only when a member is perfectly connected with the Head that it can be perfectly joined to the rest of the body. A member is joined to the body, not just because it is connected to another member in the body, but because it is connected to the Head through that member. It is linking to the same Head that makes all the members of the body one mind under one will and one authority in Christ. . Remember, you cannot count the number of people in heaven, but you can count the number of mind they all have. This is because they all have one Mind and one Head. Therefore, they are one body, indivisibly. . Our differences did not divide us in Christian fold; rather, our disconnection from the Head divided us from the rest of the body. Believers have remained disconnected from the Head, while following a head. This is the cause of division: The believers do not check whether they are still connected to the Head; because they are more interested in remaining connected to a head. There is different between “The Head” and “A Head:” The Head is Christ, but ‘A Head’ is a leader under Christ. . Many in the Christian community do not really know “The Head” (Jesus Christ), while they grow daily following their heads (Their spiritual fathers, spiritual mothers, general overseers, church leaders, heads of their churches etc.). This is sad because men and women now fight for their heads, rather than fight for Christ; they will consider those under their heads as brethren, but consider others who do not share their heads as strangers, even in Christ Jesus. Some would hypocritically, accuse a group of honoring and idolizing the saints who have died, or calling on the angels and stars to pray for them, while they themselves are idolizing men of God especially the founder and general overseer of their own church or their own ‘spiritual father’ (so-called). May God deliver His church from idolatry and worshipping of saints and angels, no matter how it has being modernized. Worshipping human stars and livings stars are as deadly as worshiping idols; a man who worships a graven image and a man who worships men of God are all idol worshippers. . Paul was one of such leaders, who never wanted even his own fans to idolize him or take sides with him at the detriment of hearing the voice Christ when He speaks from other men of God, apart from Paul. As it is written, “Now I say this, that each one of you either claimed, I am of Paul or I of Apollos or I of Peter or I of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?” (1 Corinthians 1:12-13). There are churches who will tell their wards that carnality has to do with worldliness, yet those churches and their leaders are even more carnal because of sectarianism and idolizing their spiritual leaders or general overseer or papas. (1 Corinthians 3:3-5). . Men of God are still men – no matter the grace and power that covers them, they are still wearing corruption called flesh and blood. They are men like you and me, subject to like passions and temptations. Some of them even commit more blunders than we can tell now, but they are upheld by grace of Jesus Christ. . The LORD does not want any flesh to glory in His presence, which also means the LORD does not want men to give glory to flesh and blood in His presence. Glory be to God. . Whatever God is using your man to God to do, God is using others to do as well. He does all these so that you can see God more than you see the man. The reason we such great glory in earthen vessels of flesh and blood is so that it will be easier to see the difference between the glory and the earthen vessels or clay wares, then the excellency and attributes of the power may be of God and not of us (2 Corinthians 4:7). . Here is the conclusion. How you see Christ matters, and what matters most is that we are still seeing Christ in the present. This is the highest purpose – seeing Christ as He is today, looking at the LORD and following Him all the time.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:32:20 +0000
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