Unity In The Body Of Christ!

 

There are many organizations and religions that display unity, community, togetherness and deep friendships, even love for another! 

But when we look at all the denominations, ministries, non-denominational churches, house churches, and individuals all professing Christ and calling themselves Christian, but have no unity of the faith they claim to be a part of!

What's wrong with that picture? Why are those, even in the same household, that say they are Christian, in disagreement with each other? Believing different things, but yet reading the same bible!

In my understanding of this separation of people even in the same denomination and living in the same house, starts with leadership! If your leader, pastor, or overseer, is teaching and preaching doctrinal error without spiritual understanding or anointing from God, how can that person impart the truth of God's word to the congregation?

The 1st century Christians didn't have that problem! Why not you ask?

Acts 2:40-44

"And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need."

The answer key is in the above scriptures! The people were listening to men who had been taught by Jesus Himself and they in turn taught the people all they had learned from Jesus!

But Jesus is not on this earth today to teach and train up true apostles and prophets to deliver the truth to us you say!

But I put you in remembrance of what Jesus said before He ascended into Heaven.

John 14:15-18, 19-21

“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 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. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you."

The Spirit of the Living God living within the soul of men and women today IS Christ IN US, the hope of glory!

"A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest (reveal) Myself to him.”

So you see how we can have Jesus with us and IN us helping us every single day to live on this earth and be unified with other true Spirit-filled believers? 

You can also see from these scriptures that many profess Christ but are not His because they don't have the Spirit of God within them! Even though many THINK they do!

Romans 8:9

"But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."

You say there are no true apostles or prophets anymore because they had to see Jesus and walk with Him!

Paul didn't walk physically with Jesus, but yet He did see Him and learned from Jesus through the Holy Spirit! No man or woman taught him the gospel he preached because he received it by revelation from Jesus through the Spirit of God in him!

Galatians 1:10-12, 15-17

"Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ."

"But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus."

Jesus even appeared to Paul in a vision and spoke to Him in the spirit!

Acts 18:9-11

"One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent. For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.” So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians."

So you see how Jesus is able to call, teach, and speak to those who He appoints as His apostle even though He is not physically present on this earth with us. He IS present with us in Heaven through the Holy Spirit here on earth!! Oh Glory!!!

We cannot have unity in the body of Christ without first being baptized into the body of Christ by God's Spirit! 

We also cannot have unity of the faith without first being taught the truth correctly by God's anointed and appointed apostles and prophets who are sent forth by the Lord to preach His gospel and help those who believe to enter His Kingdom!

Pray for God to pour out His Spirit once more! Pray for the unity of the faith that we need in these last days! If the 1st century Christians had unity, we can have it too!

In Jesus,

Tyrone