Christ In His Body Today

INTRODUCTION:

There's a cry coming from hungry hearts, who want to know the Lord Jesus Christ in a greater way. The salvation experience, though it was wonderful, can only be the beginning. It's by His grace that we can have more as we seek Him.

SHOW NOTES:

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  The Lord wants to be the most important relationship in our lives each day.

  
  

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  When we embrace each day like a child, then we are humble enough for the Lord to impart His kingdom.

  
  

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  God completes His work in us by renewing our mind and bringing a fresh awareness of Him to our hearts.

  
  

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  Even though the Lord is capable to do everything Himself, He has chosen to move through us, the Body of Christ.

  
  

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  Christ gifted His people with the Holy Spirit, so we can have a fresh and alive experience with Him every day.

  
  

QUOTATIONS:

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  He has to make it simple in us moment by moment in telling us who He is and how He's bringing us forth. And so we have to become like those children who know moment by moment.

  
  

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  It's God doing all of this and we're just these humble vessels here that He's doing it through. We have to remind ourselves that it's by His grace and His kindness.

  
  

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  We cannot do it without Him, but you know what? He has elected to not do it without us.

  
  

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  The very purpose of Him sending His Son was to create a people for His habitation.

  
  

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  There's many that'll be just like Him. He's the first.

  
  

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  Be Christ in the earth. Let Christ have arms and legs and walk in the earth.

  
  

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  We are His body functioning in the earth, being led by His Holy Spirit.

  
  

REFERENCES:

Luke 8:10

An He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

Philippians 1:6

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said “Alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, because I am a youth.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, 'I am a youth', because everywhere I send you, you shall go, and all I command you, you shall speak.

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord.

Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, ”Behold I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

Matthew 23:39

For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.

Matthew 18:1-4

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And He called a child to Himself and set him before them and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

I Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.

TAKE AWAY:

As part of His Body, we open up to accept how God is moving today. It is not complicated, we simply believe to be childlike and give our focus to Him every day. In our daily lives, as we accept the workings of the Holy Spirit, Christ becomes more real, and He is revealing the Father.