Unity in One Spirit!
Jn 17:17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.
Absolute Truth can only be found in an absolute God. Truth is the Word. The Word that became flesh. Jesus. The complete and concrete physical evidence of truth.
When we do the truth, we are exercising “Jesus” and thus we are in Him. There is an anointing that comes from the Holy One, the Holy Spirit. This Spirit of Truth leads us into the Truth, teaches us the Truth and keeps us in the Truth.
“because the truth lives in us and will be with us forever”(2JN 1:2).
The Cross has been forgotten in many Christian homes and churches, simply because we have chosen to place our human happiness above God’s Will.
*”For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18
Sometimes the enemy whispers, “You don’t really love yourself, and that’s why you can’t love others”. This way of thinking only reinforces our root problem of self-centeredness, and Satan rejoices.
** “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh…”
Romans 13:14
*That’s where the battle begins! God calls me to “put on the Lord Jesus Christ”, & to make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires. This is a daily, hourly focus – putting on Christ as our Lord & Master, & planning instead to honor & glorify Him!
Why then, must the church be unified?
* The church is supposed to mirror God…it should be the most important institution in the world.
*Unity in the church has been totally confused…we have a generation of confused Christians…
*People today are more loyal to their culture or denomination than their Christian faith…
*A divided church keeps the Lord at a distance…
*Humanity should adjust to our faith…not the other way around…
*Biblical Unity has to be a premium if we want the church to succeed.(TRUTH)
Jesus Prayed for You and Me!!
John 17:21 “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
*Jesus is praying for all believers to be ONE as He and the Father are ONE.
This goes far beyond what many promote as unity today. Paul besought the Corinthians to “all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1 Cor. 1:10). This is God’s standard of UNITY.
*This oneness among believers is what Jesus said would cause the World to KNOW that Jesus is the Son of God.
*This oneness is the greatest tool for evangelism that the church has.
** The only way that Christ’s body will be one as the Father and Jesus are One is through God’s kind of love.
No wonder Satan tries to get believers to go at each others’ throats. We spend billions of dollars a year on evangelism through television, radio, conventions and crusades, yet, the world is not evangelize—- BECAUSE the Body of Christ is NOT United in LOVE.
* Regardless of what strife and division has occurred, all believers are still one in Christ and will live in perfect oneness throughout eternity.
*We are now one in Spirit. We just need to experience that unity here on earth.