God's Grace in Maintaing Unity
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Individually we are a drop but together, we are an ocean; Unity is strength when there is team work and collaboration wonderful things can be achived!, ; unity is strength, division is weakness; where there is unity there is always victory! All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall! When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you! Where there is unity there you will find the blessing of the the LORD forevermore!
Introduction:
Introduction:
Unity has to be given our utmost undivided attention, unity in a church and personal homes, even in your employment is fresh force and power from God; however it can be vulnerable, subjected to a barrage of spiritual attacks to destroy and fragment the body of Christ. we are urged to maintain this awesome grace from God to gether, we have been everything we need for unity to work, we have got to arise now and walk worthy of our calling thorough the Spirit.
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The New King James Version Chapter 4
4 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Context
Context
The great writer Vs 1 urges this christian church to walk (live) worthy of her calling. and he declared how to achieve the walk, "with humility, gentleness, patience (longsuffering) bearing with one another in love! they were to make every effort to KEEP the UNITY. They were were going to do keep the unity (Vs 4-6) one Spirit, One LORD, one God and Father who is above all and through all and in all. However all throughout this great chapter lies the wherewithal to guard the unity of the body of Christ!
Unity What It Mean Vs 3
Unity What It Mean Vs 3
Thought: It is much see Unity in a variety of ways, Illustration: , "
11 Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. When the priests came out of the holy place, 12 the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets. The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons and relatives. 13 The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the Lord with one voice. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the Lord: For He is good; His faithful love endures forever. The temple, the Lord’s temple, was filled with a cloud. 14 And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled God’s temple.
Meaning of unity: bringing together of separate or fragmented parts into a unified whole. It is God’s ultimate goal to unite the whole of creation; his desire for unity is evident, too, in the life of his people. God himself acts as a unity in all his works
God’s goal for Unity: God’s purpose is to bring together and reconcile to himself the whole of creation. This desire for unity is a reflection of the unity within the Godhead; He expresses His goal in marriage, and He has demonstrated in the fellowship of the church.
Unity is a reflection of God’s person
; “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
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; I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be
one as We are one.
; "20 Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.
, "7 For there are three that testify:
Thought: God is a God who deem oneness and unity will have it no other way. thought the Word (: we will find unity with the Godhead, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit always worked to gether as one!the Law and principle of one can not be broken, it cannot be compromised. Lowliness (humility, meekness)
Gentleness
Long-suffering
What Disrupts Unity
What Disrupts Unity
Thought: Today we need to know what causes disunity and what it looks like, it has a face, we can identify those things that destroy the unity in our home and church.
Let see if we can identify these disrupter
Spiritual immaturity hurts, it slows down, it can even divide the unity and the growth of the body of Christ
; 3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
)12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Here are disrupters, things that make it difficult to maintain unity in the home or he church, even on the job! However, we can see and spot these elements and we turn them around by working together.
Walking in the flesh () (overhead)19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
When these things are not handled and handled biblically now ,it will slow down and even hinder what ever. in fact these things will not inter the kingdom of God. Meaning if you are intently practicing these things two things are happening, you are earthier backslidden and you have justified in your own mind that all you need to do is repent at any time and God will forgive you, you are saying i can take the heat from God, "GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE! , or you can not be born again, you must repent. If you are in the church, your action is disrupting the unity of the church!
The psychological part of this these things existing in the body is that the idividual cant see that they are doing such things, we have to help the individual by pointing them out
Illustration: It is like water getting into your gasoline tank, your vehicle will start to sputter, shake and eventually stop running.
How to Maintain Unity
How to Maintain Unity
Thought: Ephesian says for us to walk worthy of our calling (how?) by walking in the Spirit! Paul uses the word "humility, gentleness, patience, longsuffering, love. These are all words that are found in the book of Galatian 5:21, they are called fruit of the Spirit
Two things: we are urge to allow these acts of the Holy Spirit to work so we can keep the unity! in the process we socialize with one another to accomplish our common goal in a unity manner. also we are to know how to carry ourselves personally.
Walk by the Spirit to Maintain Unity! (HOW?)
Understand that God sent His Spirit to position Himself in our lives to lead us teach us, remind us convict us (
,, ; And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
; However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.
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God has enable us to do all that He has set before assigned us by walking (living) by the Holy Spirit. that mean walking with the Holy Spirit, letting the Holy Spirit lead. When we do that we will become more like the Jesus in humility
Ephesian 4: Sense we have be saved and called to worship together and that God has gifted us with His Spirit, we should not live as we did before our salvation (Vs 17-19)
We are told and given permission by the Spirit of God to take off the former way of life (Vs 22) and be renew in the spirit of our mind and put on the new life, the one like God in truth.
We are to put away speaking the truth to one another (Vs 25,26) and don’t be angry
We are to honest work with our own hands so that we have something to share with someone in need. Vs28)
We should not us foul language but always building one-another, especially those in need ( Vs 29)!
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit (Vs30)
We must let all bitterness, anger and wrath shouting and slander be removed from our mist, including malice (Vs31)
Challenge (Vs 31)
Challenge (Vs 31)
Be Kind to one-another
Be Compassionate to one another
Be forgiving one-another just as God also forgave you in Christ.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Are walking worthy of your calling in your home, church or employment? to gel, be led by the Holy Spirit, God have give us the where withal to achieve our our goal when we heed Godly instruction!