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Summary:
As we focus on the Lord individually, and become one with Him, we enter into a oneness with our brother and sister in Christ. Our loving relationship with Him opens the door for us to know and love one another. As we become those new creatures that He is creating, we are able to fulfill the great commandment to love the Lord our God with everything within us and to love our brother as our self.
Show Notes:
The beginning of oneness starts with our individual relationship and oneness with the Lord.
The true basis of knowing one another is first our knowing Him and having a relationship with Him.
When we see things differently, that is not necessarily the breaking of oneness. It may be just the diversity of Christ's body.
As we become those new creatures in Christ, we enter into this oneness with the Lord and one another.
There is no division or competition in Christ. The answer to every disagreement is what did Christ say?
As we fulfill the great commandment to love the Lord our God and to love one another, we find that in that relationship of oneness with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit we are also one with our brother.
As we are one in the Lord we begin to melt together and find that we are His Body functioning together.
Quotes:
When you think differently, or you move differently, that's called diversity.
Oneness is something that you walk into. It's an atmosphere that is already created.
The truth is, if you're open to the Lord, you're reaching into Him to be one with Him, to love Him to worship Him, then those that are doing the same thing - you're gonna gravitate together.
That new creature is what we're being created to, that's where we find our oneness - that you're neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, bond or free.
Each one of us has a very unique gift that is totally unique to us. And what oneness does is oneness brings those unique gifts together into a total truth, that there is not one part of the body can survive without the other.
So you might say, we're not necessarily diversified. We are now a body of parts that make the one work. It's one body functioning together.
The Great Commandment is like the banner over oneness.
Scriptural References:
I Corinthians 12:12-31
(Unity and Diversity of the Body of Christ)
Matthew 22:36-40
36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Take Away:
Our oneness together begins first with our oneness and...
