In my body there is an organ that is not working properly. It is my liver. The fact that it is not working properly does not change the fact that it is a liver. The reason (cause) of the malfunction is poor nutrition growing up, due to being poor and also due to over-processed biologically altered foods. The liver was starved of what it needed to properly develop and function in the body. If the food source was allowed to grow the way God created it to grow, and be distributed without greed and self interests robbing humanity, the liver may have develop properly and be functioning as the body requires. It is the same way with the body we call the church. God created the church – Jesus said, “…on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18b). Jesus said He would build His church. But greed and self interests have caused the growth of something else; the number of building increase where people meet who have not been given proper nutrition to function in the body.
And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food” (Genesis 1:29). “For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” … And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:33 & 35). The seed has been altered so that it does not produce a second generation crop. The word of God has also been altered to keep the children of God from growing up in the body of Christ. But God is love and Jesus is the word of God that has not been altered (unchanged). God is love and Jesus is God romancing the body with His pure word – the real bread of life. “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40).
Who we are in the body of Christ has not been changed by the altered seed and the altered bread (it is a different doctrine that is not the gospel). The word of God (Jesus) was abused on this earth for our salvation. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). No matter what goes into the body it cannot defile the spiritual body (my liver damage does not control my walk with God in the Spirit). God can heal my physical body, and I believe He will. But even if He does not, I am still a child of God with a purpose in the body of Christ. No doctrine of man can change who I am in God, nor can it change Who God is in me. All things must work together for my good! God is truth and a lie does not change the truth; one either believes the lie or believes the unaltered truth. God is Spirit and the flesh cannot alter the Spirit. The seed (Jesus) that produced me is unaltered and it will produce another generation.
© 2010, Tim D. Coulter Sr.