Unity In Christ
Our unity is only in Jesus Christ and is wrought only by love. The sequence of unity is: to know the love of Jesus, to love Jesus because he first loved me, to love myself as Jesus loves me, then to love others as I love myself. Only love produces unity. “Unity” without love is a charade and profits you nothing. Colossians 3:14 “And beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.”
For even two Christians to come into unity, each one must individually be proceeding into oneness with Jesus. This is because love is “a passion for oneness.” If we do not have a passion to be one with Jesus, then we cannot have a passion to be one with others in Jesus. As they become one with Jesus, they obligatorily become one with each other, since they are simultaneously becoming one with the same object, namely Jesus. Any other “oneness” is a work of the flesh, not of the Spirit, since the Spirit came to change us into the image of Jesus Christ.
True Christians are all one in Christ and are free in Christ positionally. Not all Christians operate in the freedom for which He set us free in a functional sense. We must progressively walk in the freedom for which He set us free in order to come into functional oneness with Jesus. By doing so, we come into oneness with each other as a functional reality as we each mature into Christlikeness.
When our eyes are on others with unity as our goal, then dissension occurs. When our eyes are fixed only on Jesus, unity occurs. It occurs more as a by-product than it does as a matter of primary intent. When we glory in our unity, we get the glory. When we glory only in Jesus, the fruit of unity is produced, and He gets all of the glory. This is to have unity in Christ. This is Biblical unity.
| Session | Date | Audio | Attachments |
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| Part 1 | January 9, 2008 |  |
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| Part 2 | January 16, 2008 | |
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