Wash Up: The Watch Letter

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." (Romans 12:1)

By definition, a body is the fullest, deepest, richest, main, central, or principal part of something.

When God is asking us to present ourselves, our bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, He is not talking about sloppy seconds. He wants a presentable body, the best from us and of us.

Recently, at the Body of Christ, Inc., Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn has been teaching us about recommitting and refocusing on sanctifying and purifying ourselves and our lives before God.

It is a sober reminder of who God is and also how we treat Him. We would not meet with our boss, meet with the president, or meet with a king any kind of way, but we so often come to God bringing Him the worst of us.

I came across a message from October 2025. Chief Apostle Gunn talked about how Abel offered himself to God by sacrificing the best of the best from his flock, but Cain came to God with a perverted offering that wasn’t his best. Chief Apostle Gunn showed us how we can be like Cain when we bring ourselves to God with envy, unwillingness, discord, gossip, complaining, backbiting, devouring one another, and with unwashed and unspiritual lives.

Fast‑forward to the present: Chief Apostle Gunn has reminded us that when we truly value and desire God and want no one or nothing more than Him, we won’t be able to help ourselves in giving Him the best of us, including being clean with how we live and doing right with how we give. When you truly love or want to be with someone, you don’t want to present yourself to them in a filthy manner.

He has also taught us that the reason we have not been clean before God is that we have something else as a priority before God—something we love more than Him. But, God desires a people who are willing to live a washed life and make him a priority. He sent His Son to die for us so we could be washed in the blood of Jesus. It is through the blood that we can meet God’s conditions.

As Chief Apostle Gunn recently mentioned, when we choose to apply the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus to our lives, God can know we are His and that we are ready to be accepted by Him and receive the life he has prepared for us. “For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.” (Exodus 12:23)

In fact, Revelation 7 tells us that those who stand before God’s throne and the Lamb in eternity are those who come out of tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Chief Apostle Gunn explained last Sunday that we have to take the steps to apply the blood and participate in ongoing sanctification.

When we choose to say “Yes, Lord” to God’s way, instruction, and commands, we can walk in the purification and deliverance that God has already provided to us on the cross. We already have the deliverance we need from Jesus’ shed blood on the cross, but it’s up to us to go after it.

That’s why Chief Apostle Gunn reminded us that John the Baptist said in Matthew 3: “Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.” And John also said, “His fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

John the Baptist’s words remind me of a scripture Chief Apostle Gunn taught from last Sunday: “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers’ soap.” (Malachi 3:2)

God is looking for a people who are willing to go through the steps and processes to be washed, purified, and repent, so we can be with Him and live for Him now and forever.

Listen to the most recent FORREAL RADIO BROADCAST episodes with Chief Apostle Gunn: including, "Hell Out" and "Pray in Faith" here https://www.thebodyofchristinc.com/listen-in.