The intrinsic building up of the organic Body of Christ  is by the direct building by all the members—into the  Head and out from the Head.

A. The Greek word for perfecting in verse 12 also means “completing,”  “equipping,” “supplying the functions”; the way to be perfected is to grow  in life and to become skillful in function. 

B. The gifted persons perfect the saints by nourishing them according to  the tree of life with the life supply for their growth in life—Gen. 2:9; 1  Cor. 3:2, 6. 

C. The gifted persons perfect the saints (according to their measure) to do what they do for the direct building up of the Body of Christ—Matt. 16:18;  Eph. 4:11-12; cf. 1 Tim. 1:16; 4:12

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a. The redeemed saints had been taken captive by Satan before they  were saved by Christ's death and resurrection—cf. Luke 4:18. 

b.In His ascension Christ led them captive; that is, He rescued them  from Satan's captivity and took them to Himself—Psa. 68:18.

 c. In His ascension Christ led them to the heavens as His captives in His  train of vanquished foes and made them gifts to His Body. 

d.Now God is celebrating Christ's triumph over them, His vanquished  foes, and leading them as His captives in a triumphal procession in  His move for His ministry to build up His Body—2 Cor. 2:14

The intrinsic building up of the organic Body of Christ  is by the giving of the gifted persons (such as apostles,  prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers), who  are constituted in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity,  by Christ as the Head in His ascension (including His  resurrection), to His Body—Eph. 4:8-12; Acts 2:24, 27; 1:9:

We can be revived in a miraculous yet normal way every morning, and we  can be revived again and again throughout the day in the same way.

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The revelation of the church in the Epistle to the Ephesians  has two main aspects: the first aspect is the work of the  ministry to build up the Body of Christ, and the second aspect is  our spiritual life, which comprises many spiritual experiences  that enable us to live a life that matches the church life.

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For the proper church life we need to love the Lord in incorruptibility

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Paul's blessing at the end of his Epistle to the Ephesians  foreshadows a problem that would arise: the love in  the church in Ephesus would fade, as indicated by the  Lord's rebuke in Revelation 2:2-5

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