Ephesians Lesson 21 of 39 part 3

If we’re a believer of this Gospel and have received it as your own, we have been placed into the One Body of Christ. Look how Paul defines it.

1 Corinthians 12:13
"For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; (remember slavery or servitude was still part of the Roman world so those were the two classes of people, that were under the elite. To be in servitude you had nothing, you had no property, and no rights, but on the other hand those that were free could have had whatever. In the Body of Christ there is no distinction) and have been all made to drink into one Spirit."
The work of the Holy Spirit places every believer into the Body of Christ. That’s the only Baptism that you have in Paul’s Epistles. The Holy Spirit, for He places the believer and receiver of this Gospel into the One Body of Christ the moment he receives the revelation. And just like our bodies, when they were in our mothers womb, as they were finally completed, and all the functions of the body were then ready, we were delivered. All right now, the same thing happens with the Body of Christ. When the last soul is saved, Redeemed the Body becomes complete, then the Lord is going to call the whole Body of Christ, the Church, out and up to glory in what we call the departure. We think we’re getting so close, in fact we’re closer today than we like to think. 

We are telling people constantly, that if you’re getting in a hurry for the Lord to come, then you get out, share this Gospel, and become an ambassador, a steward of the secrets and then being to be soul winner. Go out and talk to people about the glories of salvation, because we’re living in a materialistic ritualistic world to be sure, but the world still knows that they are hungry for something. They just don't know what it is or where to turn to find it. When we did the circles a few sections ago, and we had shown that it was the spirit that died, and how it needs to be regenerated, restored from above. Kick started if you will. This is why people are hungry. There’s a vacuum that has to be filled with the power of God.

The moment we receive the Holy Spirit, He baptizes us, or places us, into the Body of Christ regardless of our status in life. He is our first installment of blessing, a gift we're to receive and when we do God places us under His care as our tutor, trainer and teacher. The revealer of the Truth, Christ. For Jesus tells us that His main assignment is to reveal all things pertaining to Him. Not some flaky miss guided revelation of something else, but Christ alone. And remember no one has greater access to the Spirit than anyone else.
Carrying on to verse 14.

1 Corinthians 12:14
"For the body (whether you’re speaking of the human body or the Body of Christ,) is not one member, but many."
So we are all members of the same Body of Christ. Now just to show you how much emphasis the Apostle Paul puts on this term "The Body of Christ", let us show you by hitting just a few of them. Look for example in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And in verse 26, where he’s referring to the human body.

1 Corinthians 12:26-27

“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. “

"And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; (you hit your thumb with a hammer, you hurt all over) or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it (if you have an extra delicious dessert, boy you just revel on it. And the analogy is it’s the same with the Body of Christ. If a fellow believer is hurting, then we all hurt. If a fellow believer is being sumptuously blessed, we can all be blessed with him, and that’s the beauty of it). Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular."
Let’s look at another one for a moment in Ephesians chapter 1, and come in at verses 22 and 23. 

Ephesians 1:22-23

And has put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is His body, the fulness of Him that fills all in all.

"And has put all things under His feet, (the Triune God has put all things under the feet of Christ) and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the church, Which is His body (I read it that way purposely, because at the end of verse 22 there’s just a comma so you continue to read. Do you see what a difference that makes, to read it like that? and the Body is) the fulness (complement) of Him that fills all in all."
Remember when we made the analogy that, it’s the same word used, that is spoke of Eve, as the helpmate or the complement for Adam. Which meant that Adam was not complete unto himself. He had to have the woman portion of his being removed, for at his creation he held both within him. Well, Christ is looking at it in the same way. He’s waiting, and waiting, and waiting for His Body, the Body of Christ to finally be consummated with Him in glory. 
Keeping in mind that during the Passover mean He inaugurated a new thing in the earth, that which was first spoken as a promise found in Genesis 3:15. The whole theme of the promised Redemption story. And so He is the head over all things to the Body, which is His Church. He's the one who fills us all with His all. And this is and was also the secret which His Last Supper holds within the fulness of the meal. Not to mention the Lamb or flesh to be eaten with the bread, wine drank as the blood, and water. Along with the afflictions, death, burial, resurrection and ascension. From which we receive salvation, the second blessing, the entering into the New and Living Covenant, which is Christ's Body. The mystery of Genesis 2:7, 21-25 the secret.