Christ’s DNA

Husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:25-32

Only disciples can make other disciples. 

We are all members of one body—Christ’s. As members of the same body, we share a common DNA. When you have Christ’s DNA and know what His DNA is like, you are able to share that with others. As you shed your skin cells—which are really Christ’s—while going about your daily activities, you create opportunities for Christ’s DNA to impact others. Only Christ’s DNA can make others like Christ, so before you can go out and say you are spreading the gospel, you have to have Christ’s DNA alive and active in your life. Christ’s DNA works like a genetic mutation and changes the DNA of the individuals who welcome it into their life. You are not spreading your own DNA, but Christ’s; and as you do so, Christ makes others like Him.

If you are married to Christ, you must become one flesh with Him.

For you to be married to Christ, you must have His DNA inside you, transforming you into His likeness. Once you are married to Him, His DNA will stay with you forever. “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, may he return to her again?’ Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return to Me,” says the Lord.” (Jeremiah 3:1). Although it would be expected that abandoning Christ would lead to Christ rejecting us, since His holiness is the primary mutating factor, He always welcomes and beckons us to come to Him. Our sin does not taint His holiness; rather, His holiness redeems us. 

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.” (Heb 6:4-6). It is impossible to become more like Christ by any other means than His DNA. You cannot get God to save you your way; salvation has to be done His way—through the cross and His transforming DNA. As you become one DNA with Christ, you become His disciple, and as His disciple, you will make more disciples because it's part of His DNA.