(1Co 12:12) For 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.
(1Co 12:13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
(1Co 12:14) For the body is not one member, but many.
The Spiritual Body of Christ, on Earth, exists to serve and glorify the Father in the absence of the person of Our Lord Jesus here on earth in the flesh. Just as the Old Testament served as a foreshadowing of that which was to come the New Testament serves the same purpose.
(Rom 8:29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
(Col 1:17) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
(Col 1:18) And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
The life of Christ Jesus, the image of the invisible God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob made manifest in the flesh, served as the foreshadowing of establishment of His body here on Earth while He prepares a place for us, His bride, within His kingdom where we will abide with Him for ever more.
(Joh 14:2) In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
The new body of Christ on Earth, after our Lord acceded to the right hand of the Father, became manifest with the arrival of the Holy Spirit at the first Christian Pentecost as recorded in Acts chapters 1&2 which marks Our Lord’s installation as the High Priest over all creation and His being seated again at the right hand of the Father forever and ever. Amen!
(Act 1:13) And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
(Act 1:14) These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
(Act 2:1) And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
(Act 2:2) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
(Act 2:3) And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
(Act 2:4) And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This brothers and sisters was the official beginning of the ministry of the “indwelling” Holy Spirit on Earth. It was the birth of the new creation, of new fruit, on the new vine of Jesus the Christ. It was the establishment of the body of Christ on Earth of which the apostles are the corner stone on which it was built and of which Jesus is the head.
(Joh 15:5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
(Mat 21:42) Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
We are a new creation the like of which have never before been seen. We are no longer Jews or Gentiles, man or women, bond or free, circumcised or uncircumcised.
(1Co 12:12) For 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.
(1Co 12:13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
(1Co 12:14) For the body is not one member, but many.
(Gal 3:26) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
(Gal 3:27) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
(Gal 3:28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
All people of all nations, cultures, races and religions become one in the body of Christ when they reject who they were (the old man) and accept who they are as the true sons and daughters of God by putting on Christ.
(Rom 13:14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Amen!
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