THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS FOR THE SHEPHERD WHO HAS PLANTED GOOD SEEDS OVER THE LAND THAT OUR CREATOR HAS BLESSED HIM WITH. ON THE NIGHT THE LAW OF OUR CREATOR WAS BROKEN, THE DIVIDER AND HIS FLOCK CORRUPTED THE HOLY FIELD BY PLANTING EVIL SEEDS OVER THE HOLY FIELD AND INTO THE SHADOWS THE DIVIDER AND HIS FLOCK VANISHED, IT CAME TO BE THAT THE NIGHT TURNED TO DAY AND BOTH THE GOOD SEEDS AND THE BAD SEEDS SPRANG UP AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT TREES, IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE SHEPHERDS ONLY SON BECAME HUNGRY AND WENT TO HIS FATHERS LAND AND CONSUMED THE FRUIT BORN OF THE BAD SEEDS, AFTER HE CONSUMED OF THE EVIL TREE THE SHEPHERDS SON DIED, WHEN THE SHEPHERDS SERVANTS WITNESSED WHAT HAD TAKEN PLACE THEY INFORMED THE SHEPHERD BY SAYING; "YOUR SON HAS DIED AT THE HANDS OF YOUR ENEMY, YOUR LAND HAS BEEN CORRUPTED WITH EVIL SEEDS AND HAS BROUGHT FORTH EVIL FRUIT, YOUR SON HAS CONSUMED THE FRUIT OF THE EVIL TREE AND HAS DIED, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE US DO? SHOULD WE UPROOT THE EVIL FRUIT TREES AND DESTROY ITS POISONED FRUITS?", BUT THE SHEPHERD SAID: "NO, FOR IF THE EVIL TREES ARE UPROOTED NOW THE GOOD TREES WILL BE DAMAGED, I WILL ALLOW THEM TO GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE NEXT HARVEST, EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN OF WHICH TREE THEY MAY EAT, TEACH THEM TO KNOW AND RECOGNISE THE EVIL TREES AND ITS FRUITS, SO THAT THEY MAY NOT PERISH AT THE HANDS OF MY ENEMY, ON THE DAY OF THE HARVEST, I WILL TELL THE REAPERS TO GATHER UP THE EVIL FRUIT TREES AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BE DESTROYED", KNOW THAT ON THE DAY OF THE HARVEST I WILL INSTRUCT MY SERVANTS TO GATHER THE FRUITS OF THE GOOD TREES AND KEEP THEM SAFE IN MY BARN. WHEN THE DAY OF THE HARVEST HAD PASSED GOD BLESSED HIS SHEPHERD WITH ANOTHER SON AND SAID TO HIM; "MANY SERVANTS WILL COME TO THE GATES OF YOUR FIELD, BUT FEW WILL BE ALLOWED TO ENTER."
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all educated by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to be a part of. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
Now if the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
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