The church is an eternal organism in the earth, doing the will of God and accomplishing the purpose

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If We Are the Body
The church is an eternal organism in the earth,
doing the will of God and accomplishing the
purpose of God.

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• 1 John 57 For there are three that bear
  record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
  Holy Ghost and these three are one.
• Hebrews 105-7 Wherefore when He cometh into
  the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
  wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared Me
  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
  hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in
  the volume of the book it is written of me,) to
  do Thy will, O God.

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• John 11 In the beginning was the Word, and
  the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 114 And the Word was made flesh, and
  dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the
  glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
  full of grace and truth.
• 1 Corinthians 1227 Now ye are the body of
  Christ, and members in particular.

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• Ephesians 122-23 And hath 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 filleth all in all.

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• Ephesians 413 Till we all come in the unity
  of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of
  God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
  stature of the fulness of Christ
• Colossians 118 And He is the head of the
  body, the church who is the beginning, the
  firstborn from the dead that in all things he
  might have the preeminence.

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7 qualities of Christ AS THE 7 priorities of His
Church
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God
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The word

Expository preaching
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The IMAGE

BIBLICAL Discipleship
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The power

Global missions
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The LIFE

Exponential reproduction
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The GLORY

SPIRITED Worship
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God We MUST embody the LOVE of God
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The LOVe

Sacrificial LOve
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• 1 John 513 These things have I written unto
  you that believe on the name of the Son of God
  that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and
  that ye may believe on the name of the Son of
  God.

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• 1 John 47-8 Beloved, let us love one another
  for love is of God and every one that loveth is
  born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not
  knoweth not God for God is love.
• 1 John 316- Hereby perceive we the love of
  God, because He laid down His life for us and we
  ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• 1 John 49- In this was manifested the love of
  God toward us, because that God sent His only
  begotten Son into the world, that we might live
  through Him.

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• Romans 58 But God commendeth His love toward
  us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
  died for us.

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• Genesis 222 And he said, Take now thy son,
  thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get
  thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there
  for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains
  which I will tell thee of.
• John 316 For God so loved the world, that He
  gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
  believeth in Him should not perish, but have
  everlasting life.
• 1 John 410 Herein is love, not that we loved
  God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be
  the propitiation for our sins.

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• John 1725-26 O righteous Father, the world
  hath not known thee but I have known thee, and
  these have known that thou hast sent me. And I
  have declared unto them thy name, and will
  declare it that the love wherewith thou hast
  loved me may be in them, and I in them.
• 1 John 417 Herein is our love made perfect,
  that we may have boldness in the day of judgment
  because as He is, so are we in this world.

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• We MUST love GOD.
• We MUST love PEOPLE.

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• Mark 1228-31 And one of the scribes came, and
  having heard them reasoning together, and
  perceiving that He had answered them well, asked
  Him, Which is the first commandment of all? And
  Jesus answered him, The first of all the
  commandments is, Hear, O Israel The Lord our God
  is one Lord And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
  with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
  with all thy mind, and with all thy strength
  this is the first commandment. And the second is
  like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
  as thyself. There is none other commandment
  greater than these.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• GOD?

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• GOD?

(Am I obedient to the Word of God do I want to
be?)

• Obedience

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• 1 John 53- For this is the love of God, that we
  keep His commandments and His commandments are
  not grievous.
• John 1415 If ye love Me, keep My
  commandments.
• John 1421 He that hath My commandments, and
  keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me and he
  that loveth me shall be loved of My Father, and I
  will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.
• John 1423-24 Jesus answered and said unto
  him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words and
  My Father will love him, and We will come unto
  him, and make Our abode with him. He that loveth
  Me not keepeth not My sayings and the word which
  ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent
  Me.

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• Ezekiel 3626 A new heart also will I give
  you, and a new spirit will I put within you and
  I will take away the stony heart out of your
  flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

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• 1 John 38-10 He that committeth sin is of the
  devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
  For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
  that he might destroy the works of the devil.
  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for
  his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin,
  because he is born of God. In this the children
  of God are manifest, and the children of the
  devil whosoever doeth not righteousness is not
  of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• GOD?

(Do I believe God and do I take Him at His word?)

• Obedience
• Faith

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• 1 Peter 18 Whom having not seen, ye love in
  whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing,
  ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of
  glory
• James 25 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath
  not God chosen the poor of this world rich in
  faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath
  promised to them that love Him?

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• Galatians 56 For in Jesus Christ neither
  circumcision availeth any thing, nor
  uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love.
• 1st Thessalonians 58 But let us, who are of
  the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of
  faith and love and for an helmet, the hope of
  salvation.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• GOD?

(Do I not love the world?)

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation

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• James 44 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know
  ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity
  with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
  the world is the enemy of God.

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• 1 John 215-16 Love not the world, neither the
  things that are in the world. If any man love the
  world, the love of the Father is not in him. For
  all that is in the world, the lust of the
  flesh,(the desire to do) and the lust of the
  eyes, (the desire to have) and the pride of life
  (the desire to be), is not of the Father, but is
  of the world.
• Proverbs 1310(a) Only by pride cometh
  contention...

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• 2 Corinthians 614-18 Be ye not unequally
  yoked together with unbelievers for what
  fellowship hath righteousness with
  unrighteousness? and what communion hath light
  with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with
  Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with
  an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of
  God with idols? for ye are the temple of the
  living God as God hath said, I will dwell in
  them, and walk in them and I will be their God,
  and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out
  from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
  Lord, and touch not the unclean thing and I will
  receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and
  ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
  Almighty.

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• 2 Timothy 226 And that they may recover
  themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are
  taken captive by him at his will.
• Ephesians 21-3 And you hath He quickened, who
  were dead in trespasses and sins Wherein in time
  past ye walked according to the course of this
  world, according to the prince of the power of
  the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
  children of disobedience Among whom also we all
  had our conversation in times past in the lusts
  of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
  and of the mind and were by nature the children
  of wrath, even as others.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• GOD?

(Do people know that I love God?)

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony

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• 1 Corinthians 83 But if any man love God, the
  same is known of him.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• GOD?

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony
• Resistance

(Do I resist temptation?)
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• James 112 Blessed is the man that endureth
  temptation for when he is tried, he shall
  receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
  promised to them that love Him.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE GOD?

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony
• Resistance
• Rejoicing

(Do I rejoice at what rejoices the heart of God?)
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• John 1428 Ye have heard how I said unto you,
  I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved
  me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto
  the Father for My Father is greater than I.
• 2 Timothy 48 Henceforth there is laid up for
  me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
  righteous judge, shall give me at that day and
  not to me only, but unto all them also that love
  His appearing.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE GOD?

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony
• Resistance
• rejoicing
• mission

(Am I involved in feeding the world the word of
God?)
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• John 2115-17 So when they had dined, Jesus
  saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest
  thou Me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea,
  Lord thou knowest that I T. He saith unto him,
  Feed My lambs. He saith to him again the second
  time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? He
  saith unto him, Yea, Lord thou knowest that I
  love Thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He
  saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of
  Jonas, lovest thou Me? Peter was grieved because
  He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me?
  And he said unto Him, Lord, thou knowest all
  things thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus
  saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE GOD?

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony
• Resistance
• Rejoicing
• Mission
• conforming

(Does my life give evidence of Gods working all
things together for the good of conforming me
into the image of God?)
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• Romans 828-29 And we know that all things
  work together for good to them that love God, to
  them who are the called according to his purpose.
  For whom He did foreknow, He also did
  predestinate to be conformed to the image of His
  Son, that He might be the firstborn among many
  brethren.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE GOD?

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony
• Resistance
• Rejoicing
• Mission
• conforming

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• We MUST love GOD.
• We MUST love PEOPLE.

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• Mark 1228-31 And one of the scribes came, and
  having heard them reasoning together, and
  perceiving that He had answered them well, asked
  Him, Which is the first commandment of all? And
  Jesus answered him, The first of all the
  commandments is, Hear, O Israel The Lord our God
  is one Lord And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
  with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
  with all thy mind, and with all thy strength
  this is the first commandment. And the second is
  like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
  as thyself. There is none other commandment
  greater than these.

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• Romans 51-5 Therefore being justified by
  faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
  Jesus Christ By whom also we have access by
  faith into this grace wherein we stand, and
  rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only
  so, but we glory in tribulations also knowing
  that tribulation worketh patience And patience,
  experience and experience, hope And hope maketh
  not ashamed because the love of God is shed
  abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is
  given unto us.

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• John 1334-35 A new commandment I give unto
  you, That ye love one another as I have loved
  you, that ye also love one another. By this shall
  all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have
  love one to another.

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• John 1720-21 Neither pray I for these alone,
  but for them also which shall believe on Me
  through their word That they all may be one as
  thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they
  also may be one in us that the world may believe
  that Thou hast sent Me.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• PEOPLE?

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• PEOPLE?

(Am I willing to lay down my life for the sake
of my brothers and sisters in Christ?)

• sacrifice

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• 1 John 314 We know that we have passed from
  death unto life, because we love the brethren. He
  that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 1 John 316 Hereby perceive we the love of
  God, because He laid down His life for us and we
  ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• PEOPLE?

(Does the compassion in my heart reach my hip
/or feet ?)

• Sacrifice
• compassion

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• 1 John 317-18 But whoso hath this world's
  good, and seeth his brother have need, and
  shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him,
  how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little
  children, let us not love in word, neither in
  tongue but in deed and in truth.

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• PEOPLE?

• Sacrifice
• Compassion
• God- likeness

(Have I become like God in that I love those who
have made themselves my enemies?)
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• 1 John 47-11 Beloved, let us love one
  another for love is of God and every one that
  loveth (truly) is born of God, and knoweth God.
  He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is
  love. In this was manifested the love of God
  toward us, because that God sent His only
  begotten Son (there it is again- remember Genesis
  22?) into the world, that we might live through
  Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but
  that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so (if
  He loved us while we were yet sinners) loved us,
  we ought also to love one another.

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• Romans 58-10 But God commendeth His love
  toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
  Christ died for us. Much more then, being now
  justified by his blood, we shall be saved from
  wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies,
  we were reconciled to God by the death of His
  Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be
  saved by His life.
• Matthew 546-47 For if ye love them which love
  you, what reward have ye? do not even the
  publicans the same? And if ye salute your
  brethren only, what do ye more than others? do
  not even the publicans so?

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• What does it mean to
• LOVE
• PEOPLE?

• Sacrifice
• Compassion
• God- likeness
• forgiveness

(Is there anyone that I rationalize hating
because of what they did to, or said about me?)
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• 1 John 420-21 If a man say, I love God, and
  hateth his brother, he is a liar for he that
  loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can
  he love God whom he hath not seen? And this
  commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth
  God love his brother also.
• Ephesians 431-32 Let all bitterness, and
  wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking,
  be put away from you, with all malice And be ye
  kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
  another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
  forgiven you.

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of Self

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of Self

2 Timothy 31-4 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. For men
shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God
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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of praise

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of praise

John 1242-43 Nevertheless among the chief
rulers also many believed on Him but because of
the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they
should be put out of the synagogue For they
loved the praise of men more than the praise of
God.
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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of
• pre-eminence

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of
• pre-eminence

III John 19 I wrote unto the church but
Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence
among them, receiveth us not.
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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of money

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of money

1 Timothy 610 For the love of money is the
root of all evil which while some coveted after,
they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of pleasure

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of pleasure

2 Timothy 31-4 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. For men
shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God
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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of this world

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• 6 things we can love that will KEEP US FROM
  loving God and people

• The Love of this world

2 Timothy 410 For Demas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world, and is departed
unto Thessalonica Crescens to Galatia, Titus
unto Dalmatia.
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• 1 John 513 These things have I written unto
  you that believe on the name of the Son of God
  that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and
  that ye may believe on the name of the Son of
  God.
• 2 Corinthians 135 Examine yourselves, whether
  ye be in the faith prove your own selves. Know
  ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is
  in you, except ye be reprobates?

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• LOVING
• GOD

• LOVING
• PEOPLE

• Obedience
• Faith
• Separation
• Testimony
• Resistance
• Rejoicing
• Mission
• conforming

• Sacrifice
• Compassion
• God-likeness
• forgiveness

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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God We MUST embody the LOVE of God