The Church as the Body of Christ

The Church viewed as the body is a different thing from the house. "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body." 1 Cor. 12:12, 13.
Our entrance and place in the body of Christ is absolute. You and I did not bring it about; it is all of God. What I do and what you do, and what I say and what you say can never ever change that.
The truth of the oneness of the body of Christ started to come out when Saul of Tarsus was on his way to Damascus to persecute the Church! When God arrested him, he fell on his face before that light from heaven and said, "Who art Thou, Lord?" Jesus answered, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." To persecute the believers was to persecute Jesus, for Christ and His body are one.
We may suffer persecution, but it's not from Christ. What Paul was doing was not from Christ. Christ does not persecute His own body. He does not judge His own body!
Discipline is not in the body of Christ-it is in the house of God. We must keep these things separate. God by the Spirit judges His house, and our conduct in it is very important. We have heard much truth. It makes us exceedingly responsible, being under the authority of the Lord, in His house. We come under His government. Yes, the time has come when judgment must begin at the house of God. The more light one has, the more responsible one is to walk according to it. Those who have more truth get more discipline, for they are more responsible, having the privilege of enjoying more of the sweetness of the intimate communion that goes with obedience to the Word of God.
Believers come under that government, but, "What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" When God takes up unbelievers in judgment, you know what their end will be.