He
that is joined to the Lord is One spirit with Him Who is Spirit and
then it goes on to say. Do you not know that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost in you, and you are NOT your own. For you are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
This is the same meaning as this passage taken from Genesis 2 where
we find: “the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof; And
the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and
brought her unto the man. Adam said, This now
is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall
be one flesh.” Keep in mind that Jesus said this as recorded by
John: I
say, Except a man be born of water and
the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That
which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit.
Marvel
not that I said, You must be born again.
The
wind blows where it lists, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot
tell where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born
of the Spirit.” and
then while still in John's synoptic gospel we have this also: “for
their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe Me
through their word;
That
they all may be one; as You, Father,
are
in
Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us: that the world may
believe that You have sent Me.
And
the glory which You gave Me I have given them; that they may be one,
even as We are One:
I
in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and
that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them,
as You have loved Me.
Father,
I will that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am;
that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me: for You loved
Me before the foundation of the world.”
From here we can pull in what the Apostle Paul reveals in Ephesians 4
and 5 and Philippians 2 which are these statements:
“I
therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy
of the vocation wherewith you are called, with
all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one
another in love; Endeavoring
to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There
is
One Body, and One Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your
calling; One Lord, One faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all,
Who is
above all, and through all, and in you all. But to every one of us is
given Grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.” Then
Paul reveals this while dealing with the marriage of woman and man
that becomes a unite of one. “Giving thanks always for all things
to God and the Father through the name of our Lord Christ Jesus;
Submitting
yourselves one to another in the fear (reverse)
of God. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the
Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the
Head of the Church: and He is the savior of the body. Therefore as
the Church is subject to Christ, so the
wives to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it;
That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not
having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be
holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their
own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet
hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord
the Church: For
we are members of His Body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this
cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to
his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery:
but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.”
From here we can move to Philippians where we have this: “If
therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfill
my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, of one accord,
of one mind. Let
nothing be done
through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things,
but every man also on the things of others. Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But
made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a
servant, and was made in the likeness of men (though
for a short time):
And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, and became
obedient to death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also
has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every
name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things
in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth; That every tongue
should confess that Christ Jesus, is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.”
Then
in 1Corinthians 12 we find this statement dealing with the Body of
Christ:
“For
by One Spirit are we all baptized into One Body, whether Jews or
Gentiles, whether bond or free; and have been all made to drink into
One Spirit. For the body (human
body)
is not one member, but many.” This is true you see when we
understand the function of mans Religion with its many splintered
denominations, cults, organizations and the like are a hose of body
divided. This body divided sands on sand and not the sure foundation
of the revelation of Christ.
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