THE GYM MODELS THE EXERCISE OF THE NATION AND THE CHURCH
🏋️♂️YOU = Lifter/Citizen 🏪Gym = Church/People 👑God = Gym Owner/Christ 🤴Trainer = Christ/Christians 🌐Holy Spirit = Resistance/Truth 🌎World = Weight/Flesh ⛪️Just as the gym acts as a housing facility for our simulated labor, the nation acts as a structure in which we exercise our liberties of movement and work output as preparation for the need to defend it when under a real offensive attack. Likewise the church is exercised by God through the spirit, as preparation for the Spirtual war we’re engaged in through doctrine. 💧Water is required to lubricate the bodies hydration process. Similarity the nation lubricates its movement with currency and the body of Christ sustains itself with the steady hydrating flow of the Holy Spirit. 🧎♂️Squat Rack/Barbell Function: Trains quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, spinal erectors. Full-body load carried through the legs. Base of all strength. Nation: Interstate highways, freight rail, shipping ports, airports, trucking fleets. The legs of a nation. They carry commerce, move armies, distribute food. No legs, no reach. Benefit/Limitation: Strong legs = you project power, feed cities, evacuate under fire. Weak legs = supply chains fail, regions starve, nation can’t stand or advance. Church: Evangelists + missionaries + those who carry the Gospel to new ground. Romans 10:15 “how beautiful are the feet of them that preach.” Isaiah 52:7 “feet of him that bringeth good tidings.” They are the legs that move the Body into darkness. Ephesians 6:15 “feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.” 👕Bench Press/ Barbell Function: Trains pectorals, anterior deltoids, triceps. Horizontal press = force projected forward from the chest and arms. Nation: Workers, Armed Forces - Army, Marines, Craftsman, Labor, Aartillery, tanks. They do labor, build, and carry out armed attacks. Benefit/Limitation: Strong chest and arms = you shove back invasion, deflect attacks, mount armed assaults. Weak arms = you get pushed back, crushed. Church: Giving + Service + Building - 1 Corinthians 3:10 “as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation.” 2 Corinthians 10:4 “weapons of our warfare not carnal.” The press into new territory through giving, willing servitude, & building connections.