The

Connectedness

of the

Human race…

Rom 12.4We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions. In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.

1 Cor 12.25And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another.

26If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.

Eph 4.15,16

By speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head.

Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided.

So…

when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

Joshua 6.17-19

The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the Lord…

18But you are not to take anything that is to be destroyed; if you do, you will bring trouble and destruction on the Israelite camp.

19Everything made of silver, gold, bronze, or iron is set apart for the Lord. It is to be put in the Lord’s treasury.”

Joshua 7.1

The Lord’s command to Israel not to take from Jericho anything that was to be destroyed was not obeyed. A man named Achan disobeyed that order…

V4 About 3,000 Israelites made the attack [against the city of Ai] but they were forced to retreat. The men of Ai chased them from the city gate as far as some quarries and killed about 36 of them on the way down the hill.

Joshua 7.11Israel has sinned! They have broken the agreement with me that I ordered them to keep. They have taken some of the things condemned to destruction. They stole them, lied about it, and put them with their own things. This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies.

A man named Achan disobeyed that order… (v1)

One rotten apple…

Ephesians 4

Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided.

So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

But when each part doesn’t… One rotten apple…

Romans 5.12

Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned…

It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God’s grace is much greater, and so is his free gift to so many people through the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5

After the one sin, came the judgement of “Guilty”; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of “Not guilty!”

19And just as the mass of people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way the mass of people will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man.

For just as death came by means of one man, in the same way the rising from death comes by means of one man.

For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.

1 Cor 15.21,22

Ephesians 4

Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided.

So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

Ephesians 4

Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided.

So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

But when each part doesn’t…?? One rotten apple…?