The body of Yeshua, the Messiah

Romans 12:4-5

For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in the Messiah, and individually members one of another.

We’re the body parts of the body of Yeshua. We all make together one body of Yeshua. And Yeshua is the head. This means that we’re one with Yeshua. And because we’re one with Yeshua, we’re also one with the other bodyparts of Yeshua’s body. Yeshua let’s the body know what He wants and His body does what he wants because Yeshua is the head. And we as body parts of Yeshua working together to get His will to be done. You can see that we’re all needed. Yeshua needs us. He wants to use us on our own unique way. But we’re not literally His body. This example is used to show how our relationship with Yeshua works.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

We’re one with Yeshua. Not one in the flesh, but in the spirit. This means that the oneness is meant to be eternal. We’re also the ones who joins ourselves to Yeshua. That means that we’re from Him. We can’t do whatever we want anymore. We have to act according to His will.

Romans 8:35

Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

And we continue with:

Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of Yahweh, which is in the Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

We don’t have to be scared that we will be separated from the love of Yeshua. Because we belong to Him. His love is something we can trust on. And His love is in the same time also Yahweh’s love.

Romans 15:4-6

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Now may the Yahweh who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Yeshua, so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify Yahweh, the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

Encouragement we get from the Word of Yahweh and perseverance we get from Yahweh directly. These two things together gives hope.

Encouragement we get when we read the Word of Yahweh. That what is overcoming us isn’t new. The prophets, the apostles and the followers of Yeshua were all in difficult situations. And they didn’t gave up. We’re also told not to give up, because better times are coming.

Also Yahweh promise us a lot of things in His Word and we can find a lot of testimonies in Yahweh’s Word about great things that Yahweh was doing for people. These things He still can do, He didn’t change.

The perseverance you will really get it from Yahweh. It comes at the moments that you’re almost ready to give up. That are the moments you grow in perseverance.

Yahweh will also grant us that we think and act the same as Yeshua. This way we will all act like Yeshua and start to glorify Yahweh as if we have together only one voice. It means that we all work and speak in harmony with Yeshua. As one body with one mouth and one pair of hands and feet.

Ephesians 4:3-6

Being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one Yahweh and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

It’s important to protect the unity that we have As body. That’s why we have to do very hard our best to keep peace with every brother and sister. And ofcourse also with Yeshua and His Father.

Ephesians 4:11-13

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of the Messiah; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of Yahweh, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of the Messiah.

Yahweh gave us apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to help us to grow and become a good member of the body of Yeshua. A lot of people think of the church as the body of Yeshua, but that’s not necessarily true. If the church is connected with Yeshua it is true. But there are also people outside a church who are also connected to the body of Yeshua. And some churches are not connected with the the body of Yeshua. One thing is for sure: the body of Yeshua is bigger than your own church. That’s a fact. The body of Yeshua are all the people over the world that have a close relationship with Yeshua. They talk and act like Him. They are doing His will.

Acts 1:14

These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Yeshua , and with His brothers.

This is about the time that the disciples of Yeshua were waiting for the Holy Spirit. They were in one room upstairs. And they were all with one mind. We now know that they were thinking like Yeshua. They were acting like Yeshua. They were talking like Yeshua. And that’s why they were also wanted and did all the same. They were united for real. Like body parts in a body. Let us take them as an example for us.