The Eleventh Ruling Verse

1 Corinthians 12:12-14
	For just as the body is one, but has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. Indeed, we also, inside of one Spirit, were immersed into one body, whether Judeans or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been given one Spirit to drink. For the body is not one member, but many.
	Paraphrased and Expanded: For just as the human body is one, but has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. Christ is a many-membered body. Indeed, we also, inside of one Spirit, were immersed into one body, whoever we might be and whatever our background, and have all been given one Spirit to drink. For the body is not one member, but many, making us part of one another.

Gospel Comments	Notes
• Christ Made Personal: We are one body together, drinking of one Spirit and members of each other. Our togetherness is the form for Christ Jesus in creation, Jesus seen and known. • Defining the Rule: Christ is a many-membered Body, with the human body, spirit and physic together, as a picture of the Form that Jesus inhabits as a Life-Giving Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 15:45). The Spirit has already immersed us together as one body, regardless of our origins. Jesus has become the expression of our togetherness. • Life: It is the Spirit that gives life to our gathering together as the Form for Jesus. Just as Jesus is planted as the Seed of God in each one, so He is planted as the same Seed in the gathering together. It is a many-membered Church out from which the Knowledge of God is birthed into all creation. • Covenant: What joins believers together as the very Form of the Lord Jesus Christ? That’s easy. We share the same Jesus, even as we drink of His same Spirit. This Jesus is the Word we eat together, the Blood by which we value one another. The Bond of our Togetherness is the greatest thing in the universe. • Speak Christ: Lord Jesus, You fill our gathering together with all that You are, for our gathering together has become Your expression and Form inside of creation. • Ruling Verse 1: We share the same form with the Lord Jesus as the revelation of the Father as members in particular, yes, but even more so as the gathering together of the many, of His same kind, born of the same womb. Our being fitted together as the Body of Jesus is perfect, right from the start, but the end result is that our movement together in the giving of the Spirit becomes Jesus seen and known, bringing all into goodness. • Ruling Verse 2: Christ dwells in each of our hearts, yet also in our gathering together inside the same sharing of Hheart with Him. It is as we together search out the mighty extent of the God who inhabits our gathering inside of Jesus, that we come to know a Love beyond all knowing. It is His completed House, then, with Grace as the Capstone, that God fills full with all of Himself. • Ruling Verse 3: Our thirst is personal, yet we drink of the same Jesus and of the same out-poured Spirit. Rivers of Spirit flow out from each of us as members, but Floods of Life out from our togetherness. Jesus does all through His Body. • Ruling Verse 4: We are looking at the very setting wherein our shared victory over the one who accuses our precious brothers and sisters is found. Some are more gifted in the operations of such Victory, yet we all share the increase in protecting one another from all accusation of evil. • Ruling Verse 5: As we relate together in one Body, we refuse to consider the old man of sin, for it is entirely GONE. Instead, we embrace the intimacy of the Lord Jesus shared personally with each one. We see Him revealed through each. • Ruling Verse 6: We have entered through Jesus into all that is God, arm in arm. We leave no one out who belongs to Jesus. Here, as a people inside of God, the Spirit which we drink together brings God to us, and we possess our Father together. • Ruling Verse 7: From within God, we have turned around as the Mercy Seat. As one Body, we go forth with God, sharing each step in the celebration of all Victory, the aroma of Christ flowing from us into every place we go. We give thanks, and goodness happens; we speak Christ, and people live! • Ruling Verse 8: We are members of one another. We are members of one another. We are committed to each other in daily life together. We love one another with pure hearts fervently. We set forth our souls, we give our very lives, for one another’s sake. God dwells as Love among us. • Ruling Verse 9: From this Rock wherein we dwell together, rooted and grounded inside of Love, we look out upon all creation. We see the travail, the desire to be free. We know the path; we know together the way out of vanity into Glorious Liberty. We set creation free. • Ruling Verse 10: As members of His Body, each one of us dwells inside of Jesus and Jesus dwells inside of us, Person inside of person. Yet our fellowship together is also found inside of Jesus, and in our life together, Jesus dwells, for we are His Form. Together, we have searched out the depths of God, and we KNOW our Father, for we know Jesus Sent into us, that we are just like Him. We place the Lord Jesus upon every moment and interaction of our life together; we place Jesus as bright shining Fire upon His entire Church. • Kingdom: The Kingdom is the Father made known to all, the Father being Himself inside of creation through that Form He has chosen, the Church of Jesus Christ. The Father always comes through Christ Jesus; therefore, we are the Body of Christ before we are known as the Temple and dwelling place of God. All that the Father does comes through the Church. • The Form for God through Jesus: From the moment we asked Jesus into our heart, the Spirit of God immersed us into one another as members together of one Body. We belong together, inside that perfect balance of honoring each individual and rejoicing in the fellowship of the gathering. We walk in committed daily life together as Communities of Christ. God dwells as Love among us; our every interaction together is the Father’s Love made known.

Gospel Comments

Notes

• Christ Made Personal: We are one body together, drinking of one Spirit and members of each other. Our togetherness is the form for Christ Jesus in creation, Jesus seen and known.

• Defining the Rule: Christ is a many-membered Body, with the human body, spirit and physic together, as a picture of the Form that Jesus inhabits as a Life-Giving Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 15:45). The Spirit has already immersed us together as one body, regardless of our origins. Jesus has become the expression of our togetherness.

• Life: It is the Spirit that gives life to our gathering together as the Form for Jesus. Just as Jesus is planted as the Seed of God in each one, so He is planted as the same Seed in the gathering together. It is a many-membered Church out from which the Knowledge of God is birthed into all creation.

• Covenant: What joins believers together as the very Form of the Lord Jesus Christ? That’s easy. We share the same Jesus, even as we drink of His same Spirit. This Jesus is the Word we eat together, the Blood by which we value one another. The Bond of our Togetherness is the greatest thing in the universe.

• Speak Christ: Lord Jesus, You fill our gathering together with all that You are, for our gathering together has become Your expression and Form inside of creation.

• Ruling Verse 1: We share the same form with the Lord Jesus as the revelation of the Father as members in particular, yes, but even more so as the gathering together of the many, of His same kind, born of the same womb. Our being fitted together as the Body of Jesus is perfect, right from the start, but the end result is that our movement together in the giving of the Spirit becomes Jesus seen and known, bringing all into goodness.

• Ruling Verse 2: Christ dwells in each of our hearts, yet also in our gathering together inside the same sharing of Hheart with Him. It is as we together search out the mighty extent of the God who inhabits our gathering inside of Jesus, that we come to know a Love beyond all knowing. It is His completed House, then, with Grace as the Capstone, that God fills full with all of Himself.

• Ruling Verse 3: Our thirst is personal, yet we drink of the same Jesus and of the same out-poured Spirit. Rivers of Spirit flow out from each of us as members, but Floods of Life out from our togetherness. Jesus does all through His Body.

• Ruling Verse 4: We are looking at the very setting wherein our shared victory over the one who accuses our precious brothers and sisters is found. Some are more gifted in the operations of such Victory, yet we all share the increase in protecting one another from all accusation of evil.

• Ruling Verse 5: As we relate together in one Body, we refuse to consider the old man of sin, for it is entirely GONE. Instead, we embrace the intimacy of the Lord Jesus shared personally with each one. We see Him revealed through each.

• Ruling Verse 6: We have entered through Jesus into all that is God, arm in arm. We leave no one out who belongs to Jesus. Here, as a people inside of God, the Spirit which we drink together brings God to us, and we possess our Father together.

• Ruling Verse 7: From within God, we have turned around as the Mercy Seat. As one Body, we go forth with God, sharing each step in the celebration of all Victory, the aroma of Christ flowing from us into every place we go. We give thanks, and goodness happens; we speak Christ, and people live!

• Ruling Verse 8: We are members of one another. We are members of one another. We are committed to each other in daily life together. We love one another with pure hearts fervently. We set forth our souls, we give our very lives, for one another’s sake. God dwells as Love among us.

• Ruling Verse 9: From this Rock wherein we dwell together, rooted and grounded inside of Love, we look out upon all creation. We see the travail, the desire to be free. We know the path; we know together the way out of vanity into Glorious Liberty. We set creation free.

• Ruling Verse 10: As members of His Body, each one of us dwells inside of Jesus and Jesus dwells inside of us, Person inside of person. Yet our fellowship together is also found inside of Jesus, and in our life together, Jesus dwells, for we are His Form. Together, we have searched out the depths of God, and we KNOW our Father, for we know Jesus Sent into us, that we are just like Him. We place the Lord Jesus upon every moment and interaction of our life together; we place Jesus as bright shining Fire upon His entire Church.

• Kingdom: The Kingdom is the Father made known to all, the Father being Himself inside of creation through that Form He has chosen, the Church of Jesus Christ. The Father always comes through Christ Jesus; therefore, we are the Body of Christ before we are known as the Temple and dwelling place of God. All that the Father does comes through the Church.

• The Form for God through Jesus: From the moment we asked Jesus into our heart, the Spirit of God immersed us into one another as members together of one Body. We belong together, inside that perfect balance of honoring each individual and rejoicing in the fellowship of the gathering. We walk in committed daily life together as Communities of Christ. God dwells as Love among us; our every interaction together is the Father’s Love made known.

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