1Cor.12:12 For
even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the
members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the
Christ.
1Cor.12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members
individually.
The book of Acts
follows the gospels. What is the Acts? The Acts is the
spreading, the increase, and the enlargement of this wonderful
Person.
This wonderful Person was limited and confined in the little man
Jesus, but in Acts He has been reproduced, increased, and
enlarged. He has increased by spreading into Peter, John, James,
Stephen, and even Saul of Tarsus.
He has spread into tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands
of His believers, making all of them a part of Him.
Collectively speaking, all of these believers along with Himself
become the corporate Christ. Therefore, in the four gospels we
have the individual Christ; in Acts we have the corporate Christ.
By the end of Acts we see the individual Christ as well as the
corporate Christ.
The corporate Christ, composed of Christ Himself as the Head and
the church as His Body with all the believers as members....
Hence, He is not only the Head but also the Body. As our physical
body has many members yet is one, so is this Christ.
However, we do not know how the individual Christ can become the
corporate Christ. How can we, the vast multitude of believers,
become a part of Christ? This brings us to the book of Romans.
Romans explains how the individual Christ can become the corporate
Christ and how all of us who were once sinners and enemies of God
can become parts of Christ and form His one Body.
Prayer: Thank You, Lord Jesus, that today You are not
limited and confined as the individual Christ. By making me
and so many others the very parts of Your body, You have been
enlarged to become the corporate Christ. Amen.
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