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Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Body of Christ
Lately the Lord has been building a revelation of His Lordship to me in ways that I have not seen before. Last night at bible study we were learning about the body of believers in Acts. It is amazing to see what Paul has to say about this in Romans 10:9 - "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." The importance is focused on understanding and confessing (confession is a good word to look up) His Lordship and His resurrection. Take a look at 1 Corinthians 12:3 and 1 Corinthians 8:5-6, he is saying if you say Jesus is Lord with your mouth it has to be by the Holy Spirit and it is a revelation that He really does rule and reign. This is a revelation that He really is the risen Lord and that He rules and reigns as King over all (he is not just a prophet, or a good teacher, or just the Son of God, or just the Messiah, He is Lord). Remember that LORD (YHVH) is a name that God revealed unto Moses in the OT and Paul specifically says that He is the same LORD (Exodus 6:3). I hope you really begin to see the importance of His Lordship because it is more than just salvation (although that is the most incredible gift - eternal life with the creator of everything - forgiveness of sins - redemption - and the list continues) it is ruler ship with Him. Part of the difficulty in seeing this has to do with our grasp of failure and our relationship with our deadness. Remember we are crucified with Christ and He lives in us, we don't have to walk around in sins curse any longer. I challenge you to read through Acts namely as well as the letters and look at how often Lord is mentioned and the power associated with His Lordship. It is amazing that he chose us to reign with Him and His kingdom is here and now (we are living in eternity from the day of salvation, if we close our eyes here in a physical sense we will be with Him... So praise God!!!)
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Amen, Evan, Amen! Maybe the problem Christians have is not that they don't read the passages that you mentioned, but that they don't believe what they read! If we believed what we read, wow, how powerful the Kingdom would be in us, and through us! Excellent article!
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