One Body, One Spirit
The Head's trial is the Body's glory (Ep 3:13).. 5fold ministry is HEADship giftings and the 5fold offices are up at the head and look upon the body to teach them how to minister. The Saints are the BODY (Ep 4:12-13). So you have Head and Body, 1 Person! v15... Christ is the Head. And Christ LOVES His own body. Like He tells the man to love his wife for what man hates his own body! The purpose of the head- leaders is to teach the body til we ALL come to unity of the faith...this means FAITH has unity (4:13), so also then we can say faith does not have unity even though you can still have faith. You get it? This means you can be baptist, pentecostal, whatever, have faith, but the groups fight over doctrine so don't have unity yet and yet the purpose of the leaders-HEAD, teaching the BODY- their congregations, is so the BODY can then edify itself til we ALL reach the Unity in v13 AND the knowledge of the Son of God for the purpose of being A PERFECT MAN...so that we can grow up into the HEAD, which is Christ, and be hidden in Christ....that's why we hold fast to the HEAD!!!!! And why rebellion is evil! Why division is so bad....you don't talk bad about The BODY of Christ because Christ shows in Eph 4 that HE has more than one Church group but not more than one BODY! He loves His own BODY! When a husband is not unifying or building up his wife as is the role of the head- equip her to do ministry so she can unify their family, he is divisive, warped, sinning, and hating on his own body! Because marriage makes the two, one person, he being the head and her being his body.... and God says from divisive people like this, stay away from because they serve themselves but not in the unity of the faith or knowledge of the Son of God! But are in rebellion against being One Body, One Spirit (Ep 4:4). And God only works in Unity!
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