Frame Your Week with the Word Identity in Christ!! In Christ there is no Jew or Gentile, no male or female...wow! What else is there IN Christ? Key ideas from today:Identity in Christ matters because:It is what has the power to pull anyone UP and OVER any problem that came from their first birth (being human on the earth.)It is the ONLY thing that provides UNITY within a local church and THE Church. There are differences in doctrine in many areas, and a vast array of church traditions. But Only ONE IDENTITY in CHRIST.
There is only one qualifier that gives us a relationship with God, and that is receiving Jesus as Savior and receiving HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS in us. 2 Cor. 5:21.It is the SAME CHRIST RIGHTEOUSNESS in all of us that makes us 'Christ-People" or "In Christ."The Holy Spirit IS the spirit of UNITY and bond of PEACE between the cultures, genders and economic backgrounds.
The ONLY way the Holy Spirit functions is in UNITY within a body.In Christ we are New Creations, His Ambassadors, and His workmanship. We are the HEAD not the tail.Because Christ is the only qualifier, it is not possible that God's People are not equal In Him and before one another as His body.Because it is HIS SPIRIT of UNITY in us, it is not possible for God's people to walk in submission to His Word and Spirit and not have unity.
Of course there is ORDER (sequential) and different places people have in the body, some a heart, a toe, a nose, a hand, and ear etc, but what holds us all together is the SAME rigtheousness of JESUS and the SAME Holy Spirit.
Paul had a tremendous and most likely heavenly encounter with who we are In Christ, He knew that he knew there was EVERY inequality between Jew and Gentile and male and female in the world, but NONE of it in Christ.
Paul was deeply concerned that women in the Corinth chruch were not educated and although filled with zeal for this new message needed training and so put the task on really the only people that had any training back then (the men) to catch their wives up at home so the women could come into corporate gatherings and function as a body on the same level as the men.
Today, in the U.S. there is not such a great divide. Many women have been well trained in Bible schools and Christian universities and have been matured in the Word over years of ministry and teaching. There are many well qualified women teachers, pastors, evangelists, apostles and prophetic gifts in the body in the U.S. and overseas.
So, there is an increasing demand the Holy Spirit and Word is placing on the body to get things plumbed and lined up in the church. This is not a disqualifer from heaven issue, it is an integrity issues, as is healing and prosperity.Yes, many churches have a tradition of patriarchy or teaching against healing, prosperity or the baptism of the Holy Spirit. and they still function, exist and are some benefit.BUT, Jesus is LORD.
And He died for a blameless, spotless church, that has Her allegiance to Him and His Word and Spirit alone.It takes EFFORT to look at our own thinking patterns.It takes EFFORT to look at our church traditions, assumptions and 'the way we have always done things.'Jesus invites His men and women to keep GROWING in our identity in Him, and allow His WORD to be first and final authority in our thinking, believing and acting.We have a very thorough COURSE on Identity in Christ, that is available to take at YOUR convenience.
It is 3 hours of teaching and comes with a workbook and questions to answer and turn in for a certificate.
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