The Body of Christ

Generally when we think of the Body of Christ we think about the church. This of course is correct, but it has much more meaning than that. The Body of Christ is simply that, His Body. It's not just the church as a spiritual body-organization. It's not just the ecclesiastical gathering of the saints in the name of Jesus Christ. It is the "body" of Jesus Christ.


What we must remember about Jesus is that before He became a Man, He was The Word of God (John 1). The scripture says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". Jesus as the Word was God. When the Word became flesh, His name was Jesus. So what we see is that Christ as the Word in the beginning was Eternal and was a Spirit. Jesus was a Spirit (The Word) manifested in a Body.


The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Christ (John 14). God the Father sent the Holy Spirit to the church on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2). Now that the Spirit of Jesus (the Holy Ghost) is here, all He's looking for is a body, human flesh. That's where we as believers come in. The whole plan of salvation, and the whole plan of creation for that matter, is to duplicate and replicate the Spirit of Jesus (Christ) in human form. Thus is the purpose and function of the church.


The bible says that Christ is the express image of God (Hebrews 1). The Book of Genesis says that God made humanity "in His image and after His likeness" (Genesis 1). God's Original Plan was to make a humanity that looked like His Son (which in fact was Himself, John 14). Now that humanity has been redeemed back to God (John 3), the original plan can be put back in motion.


The bible describes the believers as the Temple of God (1 Corinthians 6). The temple is the human body. The Body of Christ is simply the physical vessel that God wants to use to demonstrate and manifest the Divine, Eternal Personality of His Son, Jesus the Christ. The question is, are we available? Are you ready to let Jesus literally take over your body through the leadership an in-filling of the Holy Ghost? Before He gets your body, He has to get your mind. That's why the bible says that we have to be transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12). God is looking for a people who are ready to totally surrender to Him so that their bodies can be 100% devoted to the manifestation of the personality of Jesus Christ in the earth. When we commit ourselves to this mission and this charge, we will then establish the true witness of being The Body of Christ.