September 6: Psalm 139:16; John 17:6; Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 1:22–23; Ephesians 4:15–16; Ephesians 5:30; Colossians 1:18; Hebrews 10:5; Psalm 36:7–9; Isaiah 55:1; Isaiah 65:13; Jeremiah 2:13; John 4:14; John 7:39; Revelation 22:17 - a podcast by Crossway

Just as the body is one and has many members,… so it is with Christ.

He is the head of the body, the church.—Head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.—We are members of his body.

“A body have you prepared for me.”—Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.

“Yours they were, and you gave them to me.”—He chose us in him before the foundation of the world.—Those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.

We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped… makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Psalm 139:16 (Listen)

16   Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
  in your book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

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John 17:6 (Listen)

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

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Romans 8:29 (Listen)

29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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1 Corinthians 12:12 (Listen)

One Body with Many Members

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

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Ephesians 1:4 (Listen)

4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

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Ephesians 1:22–23 (Listen)

22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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Ephesians 4:15–16 (Listen)

15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

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Ephesians 5:30 (Listen)

30 because we are members of his body.

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Colossians 1:18 (Listen)

18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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Hebrews 10:5 (Listen)

5 Consequently, when Christ¹ came into the world, he said,

  “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
    but a body have you prepared for me;

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The fountain of living waters.

How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is the fountain of life.

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty.”—“Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”—Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive.

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters.”—The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Psalm 36:7–9 (Listen)

7   How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
    The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8   They feast on the abundance of your house,
    and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
9   For with you is the fountain of life;
    in your light do we see light.

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Isaiah 55:1 (Listen)

The Compassion of the Lord

55   “Come, everyone who thirsts,
    come to the waters;
  and he who has no money,
    come, buy and eat!
  Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without price.

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Isaiah 65:13 (Listen)

13   Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
  “Behold, my servants shall eat,
    but you shall be hungry;
  behold, my servants shall drink,
    but you shall be thirsty;
  behold, my servants shall rejoice,
    but you shall be put to shame;

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Jeremiah 2:13 (Listen)

13   for my people have committed two evils:
  they have forsaken me,
    the fountain of living waters,
  and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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John 4:14 (Listen)

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.¹ The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

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John 7:39 (Listen)

39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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Revelation 22:17 (Listen)

17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

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