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1 | Given what to drink?Made to drink of? | 1 Cor 12:13 | DocTrinsograce | 132968 | ||
How about we are all baptized "by the agency of the same Spirit?" (1 Corinthians 12:7 and 11) Thus we are living stones, fitted together into one body. (Ephesians 2:16 and 21-22) | ||||||
2 | Given what to drink?Made to drink of? | 1 Cor 12:13 | Ray | 132973 | ||
Hi Doctrinsograce, I like your references. Ephesians 2:20, "having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord/." 1 Corinthians 12:13b, "...and we were all made ot drink of one Spirit...18 But now God has placed the member, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired... 24b But God/ has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another." I think that the passages stress that we should be fitted together into a holy temple in the Lord; that there be no divisions among us. From the heart, Ray |
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3 | Given what to drink?Made to drink of? | 1 Cor 12:13 | DocTrinsograce | 133077 | ||
I agree, brother Ray. Ephesians up to this point is about God's eternal purpose. He is building a temple, a dwelling place for Himself. However, He has two main problems: Dead people (2:5a) and divided people (2:12). So first He makes dead people alive (2:5b-6a) and then He draws divided people together (2:13b-19). Imagine, God has made us a part of a Plan: What kind of thing have any men been involved in that can compare? Which one of us have ever been involved in a plan that spanned decades, let alone centuries, or millenia? Yet this incredible Plan of God's spans eternity itself! No wonder Paul can hardly contain himself. It is as though he runs out of superlatives! Sorry... didn't mean to get us off the subject! In Him, Doc |
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4 | Given what to drink?Made to drink of? | 1 Cor 12:13 | Ray | 133093 | ||
Hi Doctrinsograce, I think that you have a good observation with your dead people and divided people. As an aside, the NKJ has reading for Ephesians 2:1, "And you [He made alive] who were in trespasses and sins,..." However, I would interpret/translate that "He made alive" as being rightfully in verse 5. Ephesians 2:5, "even when we were dead in our transgressions He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)." From the heart,Ray |
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