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Unity in the Body
Eph.
2:11-22
I.
Introduction
a.
We have so many identities
i.
Ethnicity, our faith, role in family, organizations, place of service in the community or church or even a sports offers identities
b.
Consider all our different identities
i.
What brings us together?
1. being a winner
a. I’m a huge USC football fan
b. Nothing like being in the Colesium 100k fans
i.
Band wagon fan
ii.
Only there for the winning
2. I don’t have much in common with them other than the color of our jerseys
ii.
Isn’t that true about most of our identities?
1. Certain commonality
a. whether it is our work, or organization or school
b. there really isn’t much that exists after our purpose is over
i.
when the purpose of our gathering is over- there is no comradere, deepening of personal relationships
ii.
rarely have our lives changed by a high five with a fellow fan at Dodger stadium
c. That’s what we want to examine today- what brings true unity?
i.
Is it just a commonality?
1. there is nothing like the excitement and fervor of sports fans
a. is that true unity?
2. is it the mere external appearance?
a. Looking like a Korean- does it make me inherently loyal to another Korean?
3. is it the way we live or dress?
a. Kylie and Katelyn has recently joined a neighborhood cheerleading squad
4. is it an organization or club with structured outline of responsibilities
a. joined a fraternity in college
i.
there were requirements for membership
1. first you had to be chosen
2. then you pledge
a. learning the Greek alphabet
b. learning all the brothers’ names and titles and background
c. there was the hazing
ii.
grow out of that- not much of a true sense of unity there
d.
What is it in life that possesses that true, lasting identity that gives us a sense of purpose?
i.
Family
1. our immediate blood family
2. and our spiritual family
Reading of the Passage
Opening Prayer
II.
Overcoming Disunity
a. Special headache for a pastor
i.
Biggest problems of a church is clichés
b. Jesus faced the same headache
i.
Reflected in His intercessory prayer John 17
1.
three times “they would be one” vv.
11, 21, 22
2. “that they be perfected in unity” v.
23
ii.
Jesus’ prayers were always answered for He prayed in the Father’s will
1.
every believer has been made spiritually one with God positionally
a. positionally we are one with Christ
b. “The one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” 1 Cor.
6:17
2. just as a physical body has life flowing through him
a. so does a spiritual body
i.
God’s spirit put’s the life of God in the soul of every believer
ii.
And is united with every other believer in the same eternal realm
c. Practically
i.
It is often times very tragically different
1. 20 years ago, pastor of a prosperous white church in the South
a. Began to have biblestudy with a black janitor
2. contemporary African church
a. missionary was deeply moved when witnessing these bitter enemies who once loved to brag about how many men, women and children the killed, raped and mained were now praising and singing to God
b. where they once loved to shed each other’s blood now they come to praise the Lord who had shed His blood for all of them
ii.
that is the type of unity only Jesus Christ can bring
therefore Paul commands for us to maintain *“being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.”
Eph.
4:3-6*
III.
Division of the Passage
a. Two sections
i.
Alienation Apart From Christ
ii.
Unity Through Christ
IV. Alienation Apart From Christ, vv.
11-12
a. Social Alienation, v.11
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