The Body of Christ

The church Paul explains in Corinthians is like a body. And we as Christians are part of that body. Jesus is the head, the head that controls and instructs the body to do that which is needed.

And if in our bodies we loose connection with our heads... needless to say our life expectancy is not very long.

But if we do have a tenuous connection to our head, we may be alive but useless, paralyzed. While our legs once could run and jump and walk, now they sit atrophied and just using up the strength of the rest of the body

With Jesus our whole body is supported and held together, controlled and guided.

So Jesus is God, Jesus is the foundation (the roots) of our faith, Jesus is our centre, Jesus is our head and guide. Jesus is all that is needed for our salvation.

Why then do we try to change things?

It is because we are still affected by our own sin. We are affected by the sin of the world around us and we are affected by the sin of the Devil and his tempting attempts to lead us into further sin.

Paul in the book of First Timothy warns of people whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. When your flesh is seared then that area tends to lose the ability to feel and the nerve endings die off.

When our consciences, our ability to make moral choices becomes seared, by our sins, then we too will loose the ability to think things are sins or not. It is easier to continue into deeper and deeper sin.

Once you’ve done it once it’s easier to do it again and worse the next time.

The answer is that as the disciple John said in His gospel. If the Son sets you free you are free indeed.

Prayer to Jesus our saviour, our Lord, He will set us free.

The only way to come to Jesus is prayer. If you don’t know what to say then ask him to teach you.
The disciples who walked with him for three years had to ask him why should you be any different?

Open up and speak with Him. Break the ice and let him in.


Then read your Bibles.

While God could speak to us audibly, or arrange signs to show us his will, or make the clouds into words and pictures, there is always the strong likelihood that our desires our clouding our judgement.

The Bible is the authoritative way in which he speaks to us today. And if you don’t go to it then how else can you hear back from him after prayer?

Remember, with such importance, the enemy struggles to keep us from the Bible. You are never too busy, too tired, or too stupid to be able to read God’s word.

The world also tries to tell us not to read it – that it is unreliable or tainted or old and outdated. The fact is they are wrong…

What ever excuse is keeping you from the bible – ignore it, pick a Bible up and read the gospel of Mathew.

Go on I dare you. You have a month.