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Nov 10, 2017 · Unity is a gift from God. In Ephesians 2, Paul explains how unity comes as a result of salvation. This means, unity among fellow Christians is a gift of grace, just like salvation itself. As Ephesians 2:13–16 teaches, Jews and Gentiles were made “one new man” by the death and resurrection of Christ.
Jan 15, 2024 · In many of these stories, God’s people, the Israelites, are discovering how God relates to himself and how they relate to other people. These stories demonstrate that since the beginning of time, God has had a plan of unity for everything, including His people.
So although God is three distinct persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, He is also only one unified Godhead. Many people have tried to explain this divine mystery using a variety of illustrations over the centuries.
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Unity among two or more people gets its virtue entirely from something else. Unity itself is neutral until it is given goodness or badness by something else. So if Herod and Pilate are unified by their common scorn for Jesus (Luke 23:12), this is not a good unity. But if Paul and Silas sing together in prison for Christs sake (Acts 16:25), this is ...
Spirit-rooted, Christ-manifesting, truth-cherishing, humbly-loving unity is designed by God to have at least two aims: a witness to the world, and an acclamation of the glory of God. The apostle John makes the first of these most clear. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one an...
Jesuss famous statements in John 17 are rooted in the profound spiritual unity between the Father and the Son, and with those whom God has chosen out of the world (John 17:6). I ask that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me (John 17:21). N...
The ultimate aim of such Christian unity is the glory of God. Hence Paul prays, May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you...
Seek to attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God (Ephesians 4:13). Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18). Share, by every means you can, what you see of Christ. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom (Colossians 3:16)....
1 Samuel 11:7. Verse Concepts. He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” Then the dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out as one man. Judges 20:8.
Ephesians 4:1-16 — Walk in Unity, Diversity and Maturity. BIG IDEA: IN HUMILITY AND LOVE, PROMOTE UNITY IN A CONTEXT OF DIVERSITY WITH THE GOAL OF MATURITY. INTRODUCTION: Harold Hoehner: The revelation of the unification of Jewish and Gentile believers positionally as “ one new person ” (2:15), the body of Christ, and the prayer that this ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · All believers are called to be of one mind so they can glorify God in unison and accurately reflect Jesus to the world and extend His offer of salvation (2 Corinthians 5:20). When we are saved, we are united with Christ and become part of the family of God (1 John 3:1).
