Part 4 | We Need Each Other’s Contribution
From 1 Corinthians 12
📖 1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
If I am the of Christ, I am part of the of Christ.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:12–14 ESV For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
The ENEMIES of contribution:
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📖 1 Corinthians 12:15 ESV If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
The ENEMIES of contribution:
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📖 1 Corinthians 12:21 ESV 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.”
📖 James 3:14–15 ESV But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:22 ESV On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
The ENEMIES of contribution:
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📖 1 Corinthians 12:23-24a ESV and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require.
Three confessions that lead to contribution:
1. God put me I am in His .
📖 1 Corinthians 12:24b ESV But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it.
Three confessions that lead to contribution:
2. God put me I am for the sake of in His .
📖 1 Corinthians 12:25 ESV that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
📖 Philippians 2:3 ESV Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Christ is the of the body.
📖 Colossians 1:18 ESV He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Three confessions that lead to contribution:
3. I find and in to the of Christ.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Christ His body.
📖 Colossians 2:18–19 ESV Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Christ me through participation in the body.
Sermon in a Sentence:
In Christ I am and and He has called me to to His work on Earth.
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