Saved In Civity--Becoming One In The Living Body Of God

When we are persecuted by opposition to our message we join in the Bread as the Body of Christ. We live a new corporate Life in this one Body as God makes us alive in the process of civity.

Each of us is an individual with an individual Seal. Each of us is together united in one, and we become the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ begins as individual grains of wheat.

Jesus is the first Grain of wheat. His Message is the second Grain of wheat. The third grain of wheat is His individual believer. When Christians believe the Message of Jesus, they become like Him.

These grains of wheat are ground into powder by persecution and opposition. The Water of the Holy Spirit is added and it is made into dough. And there is a third ingredient added of God the Father--the Leaven.

"The kingdom of the Heavens," Jesus said, "is likened to Leaven, which having taken a woman hides in three large portions of flour, until the time the whole amount is leavened."

The flour of the ground wheat grains or Seed is mixed with the Water and Leaven and left to rise. The believers are joined together with Jesus and then with the Holy Spirit and the Father also, and the Father causes them to rise.

The dough rises and then it needs to be pressed down to its former size again. In a little while it rises again. It is pressed down again. And it rises again. It can "fall" and rise like this several times before it is baked.

The rising of the dough is the new Life the Father gives us. The dough rises as the wheat Flower once rose up with growth. It is a corporate Life, the Life of the group together as one organism. There is the Life of the individual yet this is the Life of the Group.

This Life transforms the Group completely. Everybody is in agreement, everybody shares a like passion. The individual differences do remain, but everybody is integrated into the Group.

When we are broken by opposition, we integrate into the Group more easily. The Holy Spirit holds us together in one, and the Father gives us our corporate Life. As a corporate Body, many of us individuals live together in one Creature.

This is what the kingdom of Heaven is like. In Heaven we will live as individuals for ete
ity. We will also live a corporate Life, the Life of a Body of the most privileged people ever created.

When we are sealed we become the earth which grows these wheat Seeds. But we also deny ourselves and take up our own cross and follow Jesus. When we follow Jesus, we too are wheat Seeds like He is.

And when we become wheat Seeds like Jesus, we have the chance to be integrated into His Body and live the new, corporate Life lived by the heavenly Body. This is how we build community--living community.

When we follow Jesus we suffer persecution as wheat Seeds ground into powder. Yet the Water of the Holy Spirit unites us as one and the Leaven of the Father gives us new Life in a process known as civity.

We live personal, individual lives when we follow Jesus. But when we are sealed and follow Jesus, we become members of the corporate Body of Christ and live the corporate Life through civity.