Love the Body!!!

The children of the most High God has been afforded the privilege of being united into one family through adoption which is known as the body of Christ. This is a wonderful experience for each Christian, to belong to something greater than oneself and to find people that are like minded in their pursuits in life. This also is the arena that God uses the Holy Spirit to buffet our flesh through learning how to love our brothers and sisters in Christ. The world once again plays a heavy part and invades the body of Christ with its definition of love and how “Christians” are to interact. Once again “if you are a part of the church you should never feel an offense caused by another brother or sister and Heaven forbid by leadership” according to the world. We are all human and come from many different upbringings and cultural back grounds. We come from different religious upbringings and we bring totally different educations and experiences with us. All the mingling and mixing at some point will cause an offense. The beauty of being in the body is what is done once the offense takes place. There should be two vessels working towards resolution and restoration of the relationship. We also cannot correct one another according to the standard set for us because that will bring offense. In love we should correct one another and restore our brothers, sisters, and leadership onto God’s path and His standard. To many brothers and sisters are looked down upon because they wish to see the body healthy and operating wholly, they are lead to admonish the body and these actions are looked upon as negative when they come from the Holy Spirit. We must read our word and understand that a Loving Father wants His family to operate in Love one to another in spirit and truth!!! A great tool used is admonishment to mature the saints in the body of Christ to the standard we should present to the world. Today let us put off conforming to the world’s standard of Love and let us transform to the standard laid out in God’s inerrant Word!!! Have a wonderful life of love on purpose!!!!!


Nehemiah 9 (The Isrealites)

19 "Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. By day the pillar of cloud did not cease to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. 20 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst. 21 For forty years you sustained them in the desert; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.
22 "You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon [c] king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan. 23 You made their sons as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their fathers to enter and possess. 24 Their sons went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you handed the Canaanites over to them, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased. 25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.
26 "But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they put your law behind their backs. They killed your prophets, who had admonished them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies. 27 So you handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

Colossians 1 (The Body of Christ)

Paul's Labor for the Church
24Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints. 27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. 29To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.

Colossians 3 (The Body of Christ)

Rules for Holy Living
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.