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Excerpt- "There is one body" (Eph 4:4). That is a very wondrous truth! A very deep truth! An exceedingly blessed truth! "One body".
Now, Christians in the beginning met simply because they belonged to the one body. If you and I had been in Ephesus on the Lord’s day morning and sought out those who owned the name or authority of the Lord Jesus, we would have found the terms of admission to partake of the communion to rest upon the simple question of whether or not we were members of the one body. They wouldn’t have taken us to one side and inquired our views as to baptism, dispensational truth, interpretation of prophecy or a host of other things men have quarreled about, but they would have been anxious to know if we could definitely and distinctly show that we were members of the one body — if we were sound as to the Person and work of Christ. If we could show that we were sound, on that showing alone we would have been received among them, and on that showing alone we would have partaken of the emblems, because they set before us this same truth. (I am supposing, of course, that our profession would not have been contradicted by our lives.)
The loaf of bread upon the Lord’s table speaks to us not only of the death of the Lord Jesus, but also, before it is broken, of the truth that there is one body. We partake of that loaf as members of the one body and in no other way.
Space does not permit us to say much more as to this comprehensive subject, only we believe it still to be according to the teaching of Scripture to be gathered on this large ground, acknowledging every member of the body of Christ on earth as a brother or sister, and acknowledging the right, or privilege, perhaps it is better to say, of every such a one to remember the Lord with us — to partake of that one loaf.
One finds it necessary to add this: Whereas in the beginning these matters were very simple, today they are not equally simple because there are those who call themselves Christians who are not Christians at all, and it no longer suffices to take a man’s own word for it. All kinds of people call themselves Christians now. It is our duty to discover if reality is there. We are responsible for those whom we receive, and this responsibility we cannot put on them.