Where Do I Belong in the Church? (Part 2 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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A human body is made up of many different but interconnected parts, and it functions best when each part fulfills its purpose. Similarly, each believer has a vital role within the body of Christ, the church. Hear more on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	All of us have had to deal with some kind of physical infirmity.
0:28.0	You know that when something isn't working the way it should, your whole body feels it.
0:39.2	In the Bible, the church is described as a body.
0:43.7	What happens when one part of that body isn't working as it should?
0:49.4	Alistair Begg considers that today on Truth for Life or in 1 Corinthians 12.
1:01.4	When you read the New Testament, you discover that one of the great pictures is that of a kingdom.
1:07.0	And the really significant issue for us is that we are members of this kingdom.
1:11.1	We are kids of the kingdom.
1:13.3	Colossians chapter 1 and verse 13.
1:17.8	He has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light for he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness
1:25.6	and brought us into the kingdom of the sun he loves in whom we have redemption even the forgiveness of our sins.
1:34.0	What is it that brings us together?
1:36.2	The fight that there is only one king in his Christ.
1:39.2	And that we have been made kids of his kingdom and that is a more significant truth than any earthly passport that we can hold.
1:47.8	That is a more significant truth than any other element that divides men and women from one another, whether it is social status,
1:56.6	which is anathema in the church or should be to be placed in Christ is to be placed under his headshed.
2:04.8	And the challenge of our journey is to see these physical expressions and local expressions of the invisible body conforming to that standard which God has manifest for us in the kingdom of his sun.
2:17.7	In the same way, we are a family.
2:21.7	God has put His Spirit within our hearts and we cry out of Father.
2:26.5	Who do we say Father to the same person?
2:28.7	So that means that we are brothers and sisters with all of the pluses and all of the minuses that go with that.
2:36.7	All of the challenges, all of the responsibilities.
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