被洗归入基督的身体
哥林多前书十二章1至4节和12至14节
1弟兄们，论到属灵的恩赐，我不愿意你们不明白。
2你们作外邦人的时候，随事被牵引，受迷惑，去服事那哑吧偶像，这是你们知道的。
3所以我告诉你们，被神的灵感动的，没有说耶稣是可咒诅的；若不是被圣灵感动的，也没有能说耶稣是主的。
4恩赐原有分别，圣灵却是一位。
12就如身子是一个，却有许多肢体；而且肢体虽多，仍是一个身子；基督也是这样。
13我们不拘是犹太人，是希腊人，是为奴的，是自主的，都从一位圣灵受洗，成了一个身体，饮于一位圣灵。
14身子原不是一个肢体，乃是许多肢体。
信息分享
保罗非常关心哥林多的信徒，他希望他们能清楚认识圣灵在教会及信徒生命中的工作。在他的书信中，我们找到几篇论及圣灵的重要经文。
保罗在这段经文中论及基督的身体，即教会。他指出圣灵将不同的恩赐分给信徒；而最重要的，是他描述我们是如何进入基督的身体。
当我们相信耶稣基督是救主，我们就得着重生。神赦免我们的罪，并接纳我们是祂的儿女。圣灵进入我们心中，然后便引领我们进入基督的身体。圣灵这个行使主权的行动，我们称为「圣灵的洗」。那意味着圣灵在我们心里的工作是那么的深邃、那么的奇妙，以致我们仿如在基督的身体里被浸润着一样。这就是「圣灵的洗」(13节)。
圣经没有教导我们要追求这种圣灵的洗，而且，我们根本不用去追求，因为圣灵会主动做这工作。凡接受耶稣基督是救主的人，都会得到这圣灵的洗。
你若接受基督作为你的救主，那么，你便属于基督的身体。你已经成为祂身体的一部分，而你的生命也要永远服事主。你有没有尽上你的本分去服事基督和教会呢？
颂赞：
我能够成为神家中的一分子，是何等荣幸的事。
BAPTISED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST
1 Corinthians 12:1-4 and 12-14
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
Message
Paul was very anxious that the Corinthian Christians should know exactly what the work of the Spirit of God really is, both in the church and in the individual believer. He actually gave several chapters to this tremendous subject.
Here in this passage Paul spoke about the body of Christ, the true Church. He mentions the fact that there are various gifts the Spirit of God gives believers. Best of all, he tells us how we enter the body of Christ.
When we believe in Jesus Christ as Saviour, we are born again. Our sins are forgiven and we become children of God.
The Spirit enters our bodies. Then he takes us and puts us into the body of Christ. This sovereign action of the Holy Spirit is described as baptism; That means the Holy Spirit's work in us is so deep, so wonderful, that it would seem as if we were immersed into the body of Christ. So it is called the baptism of the Spirit (v.13).
We are never told to ask for this baptism. Nor do we need to ask for it. The Holy Spirit does this on his own initiative. He does it for everyone who comes to Jesus Christ, by accepting him as Saviour. This is the one and only baptism of the Spirit.
If you have accepted Christ as your Saviour, then you are part of the body of Christ. You have been put there forever for a life of service for Christ. Are you doing your part for Christ and his church?
A PRAISE NOTE:
'I'm so glad I'm a part of the family of God.'