08/24/19 WE ARE HIS BODY

08/24/19 WE ARE HIS BODY
 
As the Master Designer, Engineer, Architect, Builder, God fits local churches together perfectly for ministry. Really, He does.

WE ARE HIS BODY
I separate verses and use (*) to focus on points.

GOD FASHIONED HUMANS (spiritually and physically)
Genesis 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
*27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God *formed man of the dust of the ground, and *breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and *man became a living soul.

Psalms 139:14-16
*14 I will praise thee; *for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

*16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, *which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

GOD BUILDS AND FASHIONS HIS CHURCH (local and universal)
Matthew 16:15-19
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 *And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

*18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock *I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Ephesians 2:20-22
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

21 In whom all the building *fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

22 *In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:11-16
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, *pastors and teachers;

*12 *For the perfecting of the saints, *for the work of the ministry, *for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, *unto a perfect man, *unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 *That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15 *But speaking the truth in love, *may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

*16 *From whom *the whole body fitly joined together and *compacted by that which every joint supplieth, *according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, *maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.