'FOREVER BEING REFORMED'

Sunday, 28 October 2012

'FOREVER BEING REFORMED'

Rev. Brian Wilkie

By Rev. Brian Wilkie

Pastor of St. Andrew's Christian Community

Rockland, Ontario

http://www.rocklandchurch.ca/

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PODCAST LINK to CFRA broadcast - Sunday, October 28^th, 2012:

http://proxy.autopod.ca/podcasts/chum/6/9280/good_news_024_oct28.mp3
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Broadcast Notes:

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‘Forever Being Reformed’

Today’s topic is taken from: 1 Corinthians 12:12-28 (ESVUK):

One Body with Many Members

¹²For just as ^(A)the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, ^(B)so it is with Christ. ¹³For ^(C)in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—^(D)Jews or Greeks, slaves^[a] or free—and ^(E)all were made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵If 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. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? ¹⁸But as it is, ^(F)God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, ^(G)as he chose. ¹⁹If all were a single member, where would the body be? ²⁰As it is, there are many parts,^[b] yet one body.

²¹The 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.” ²²On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³and on those parts of the body that we think less honourable we bestow the greater honour, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, ²⁴which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honour to the part that lacked it, ²⁵that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. ²⁶If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honoured, ^(H)all rejoice together.

²⁷Now ^(I)you are the body of Christ and individually ^(J)members of it. ²⁸And ^(K)God has appointed in the church first ^(L)apostles, second ^(M)prophets, third teachers, then ^(N)miracles, then ^(O)gifts of healing, ^(P)helping, ^(Q)administrating, and ^(R)various kinds of tongues.