Member Of The Body Of Christ: Christ In Me

What constitutes me as a member of the Body? If the Lord gives me a revelation concerning the Body, what will be the effect on me? Is it simply that I have seen something which I have never seen before, that I have the knowledge of certain truths which I never had before? or is it that revelation going to be revolutionary? Will that revelation be treated by me as a teaching, as a doctrine? or will it become something really subjective in me, producing some real change in me?

Let me assure you that, when you have seen it, it is going to be a revolution. Something is bound to happen.

Now, back to the question: What constitutes me as a member of the Body? It is not something I can do, it is not something I can experience. The thing that constitutes me as a member of the Body of Christ is Christ in me. That entitles me to be, and that actually makes me, a member of the Body.

Paul did not say anything wrong grammatically or spiritually when he said: ''For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ'' (1 Corinthians 12.12). I think some of us would like to correct him. Grammatically, or logically, it is wrong. He ought to have said, ''so also is the Christ and the Church.'' He only says, ''Members . . . body . . . so also is the Christ.'' So the Head is the Christ and the Body is the Christ. Both are the Christ - the Head and the Body.

So the Body is the Christ. Everything that comes from Christ constitutes that Body. Then anything that does not come from Christ can never get into the Body, and must be ruled out. It is not a question of ''plus,'' It is not a question of what you must be, or must experience, in order to make you a member. No, you are a member, but because you are one, therefore many things have to go. If you see the spiritual constitution of that Body, the heavenliness of that Body, the divineness of that Body, you will see that nothing from you can be attached to it. Anything that is not Christ can never be in the Body.