2. 1 Corinthians 15:34- Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

3. 2 Corinthians 11:3- But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4. 1 Peter 2:21- For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

6. The “Body of Christ”

7. John 19:5- Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

8. Genesis 2:7- And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

9. Psalm 39:5- Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

10. Psalm 144:3-4- LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him
Psalm 144:3-4- LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

11. Job 25:4- How then can man be justified with God
Job 25:4- How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

12. Job 25:4- How then can man be justified with God
Job 25:4- How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Isaiah 64:6- But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

13. Hebrews 2:9- But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

14. 2 Corinthians 4:4- In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Colossians 1:15-Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 1:3- Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

15. Without the body, JESUS would have never been a man
The “Body of Christ”
Without the body, JESUS would have never been a man

16. The “Body of Christ”
Without the body, Jesus would have never been a man
Without the body, JESUS would have never been able to die

17. 1 Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

18. John 15:13- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

19. Without the body, WE would be nothing more than men
The “Body of Christ”
Without the body, WE would be nothing more than men

20. Ephesians 2:12- That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

21. John 1:12- But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

22. Galatians 4:4-5- But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

23. The “Body of Christ”
Without the body, WE would be nothing more than men
Without the body, WE would never be able to die (to our flesh)