THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST

The church is the body of Jesus Christ; church does not refer to the place where I worship alone but every other church where they teach the truth, bible believing and salvation through Jesus Christ, we are not denomination but different vision from God to bring forth different character of God, just as there were 12 tribes in Israel so there are tribes in Zion but from below scriptures shows us that it was all for perfecting of saints until we attain fullness of Christ , working as members of one body because that is what we really are

Ephesians 4:11-13 (King James Version)

 11And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

 12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

 13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

1 Corinthians 12:8-12 (King James Version)

 8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

 9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

 10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

 11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

 12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ

Some churches have only known Jesus as the lamb but He is also the lion of Judah as the lion of Judah He comes as a judge and in His full glory and as a lamb He lived as a man here on earth and through the Holy Spirit showed us the kind of life we should live here on Earth. Showing us a Christian life is the life of the supernatural.

It should sink in us we have one savior Jesus Christ and we all live our life for His purposes. We are called to love our brothers and sisters first in the body of Christ then we will be able to win others who are lost. There are many false prophets and are teaching erroneous gospel, there are others who genuinely love God but they have fallen along the way  but how do we react  to all these as such things had been foretold as scripture below clearly show and many more

2 Timothy 3:1-5 (Amplified Bible)

1BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].

    2For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.

    3[They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.

    4[They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.

    5For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them]

Is it by teaching in our congregations about the evil being done the church next door?

2 sam 1:20 “Tell it not in Gath,

   proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,

lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad,

   lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice

Exo 32:9 “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. 13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” 14 Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened

Another good example is a man named Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus

John 12:3-9 (New International Version, ©2010)

3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

 4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it

Jesus knew of this man all along yet not a single time we have read that they were divided. The disciples often had disagreement but every time Jesus reminded them of the kingdom we have been called to, Moses too pleaded with God not to destroy Israel though they had done wrong and David though Saul had sought His life he Respected the anointing in Saul’s life, He did not want it to be known, He even fasted the whole day when He received news of Saul’s death, do we react the same or are we the first to say and condemn of what the other men of God has done wrong

Romans 14:4 (English Standard Version)

4(A) Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master[a] that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand

It should be clear whether people have done wrong or are doing everything wrong that always we should react in love, pleading before God for such people day and night until they stand strong in the lord. It is not for us to accuse we have been called to a higher life in Christ, and being the one accusing is getting cheap with the gospel.

We have been called to move from one level of glory to another yet we may never be able to reach some level of glory as long as the house of God is not complete, as in we have not reached to the lost coin (these are people who are not by their own fault the way they are like a person who have been raised from when they were young being taught that there is no God),. the lost sheep (This is the category many people fall …6All of us, like sheep, have strayed away…) and the prodigal son (those who have backslide).

Many people have seen vision of entire church being left behind during rapture yes from the pastor to the rest of the congregation just because they were not ready, yes the refraining  force of evil in the world(the church) will be taken when others will be left behind. Does this awaken you to do something about the lost ?

The word of God says Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a matter is better than its beginning….and as Christian we should realize this that we are the best generation God has ever had and God has released all the power that we need to stand strong and to complete the work God has given unto us that we got no excuse at all, we can never fail in these Jesus has already spoken concerning a generation that God will raise that is selfless fearing nothing even if it means costing their lives. Lets be convicted of our calling knowing God is counting on us and if we don’t do what we have been called simply no one else will, and so we be faithful in our prayers in our walk and in our faith as Jesus is coming soon !!!