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count you important because you belong to me. The Christians belong to one another and like it or not, I belong to you. We're a body%u2014hand and arm, leg and foot, eye and brain.3.Membership demands unity. In 1 Corinthians 12:12 Paul said, %u201cthe body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts.\The American Standard says, \deliberately designed your body to love harmony and hate discord.I keep using these physical illustrations, personally, but those are the ones I know best and we're talking about a body. Some time ago I was in a basketball game, likely the last basketball game that I ever will play in. I was going one way, planted the left foot and the whole body was still going left, but from this knee down, decided, no, I'm going to stay right where I am. Then it happened something snapped. See, a body will not tolerate disharmony. The body hates it when members go against each otherand fight against each other. God wants the incarnation of Jesus to continue in the lives of Christians. He wants the world to see Jesus living in our lives. Nothing will destroy the purpose of the continuing incarnation of Jesus quicker or more completely than division in the body. That's why Paul said \(Ephesians 4:3)Unity takes effort, doesn't it? It takes work and discipline to keep a physical body working well. You can be assured the devil is furiously determined to keep the church from living out the continuing incarnation. Do you know how he's trying to shut us down? Somebody says, \, through false doctrine.\church you will see fall to false doctrine, you will see 50 ravaged by a split and by a divisive spirit. \Do you know what that means practically? It means make every effort to stay away from gossip. It means make every effort not to be jealous of somebody else here. It means make every effort not to be suspicious. It means if you don't know something, ask andmake every effort to not speculate. Make every effort to stay away from anything that would bring discord in the body. No body stays healthy that fights itself.Precious few physical bodies are destroyed by something on the outside. There aren't many bodies that are destroyed by a gunshot, a bomb going off, or a car wreck; there are some, but not many. How do most bodies die? Most bodies die from the inside out. They die because of cancer, heart attacks or strokes. Most people die because the body goes to war