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October 5 - December 22, 2021
The story of our primeval parents and their fall from grace in Genesis 3 touches on the spiritual reasons for our alienation from our bodies.
The spoken word comes externally from the mouth of a speaker through the ears of its hearers and into their souls. There in turn it has its effect on the body through their souls and minds. Thus, the whole person is addressed and reformed by God’s word.
I love how this describes the way the spoken Word of God has its affect on us.
Like a mother with a baby in her womb, Jesus nourishes us with his body and blood. Or, to change the picture, Jesus transfuses his lifeblood from his body into ours.
Body-bread, blood- wine. All at the same time. It’s all making even more sense now.
Sixth, God does not classify men and women as either heterosexual or homosexual people. He judges all men and women alike in their sexual misbehavior without regarding one kind of it as more sinful than another. Thus, in his eyes, fornication and adultery are just as unrighteous as same-sex intercourse. Each of us is without excuse before God (Rom 2:1; 3:19–20). We cannot justify ourselves by condemning the sexual misbehavior of others. We all need to repent of our sexual unrighteousness and receive cleansing from our impurity.
In that life with Jesus, we will not be disembodied but even more perfectly embodied than we are now. Thus in this life, holy matrimony, the marriage of two believers, gives us a preview and foretaste of our perfect bodily union with Christ and each other. Those who are now one flesh and one spirit with each other and Jesus, as well as those who are not married but are also united with him, will be forever one with him and all the saints in the life to come.
