Nov 28 2024 11 mins
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SUMMARY:
After a person has received Christ, he can go into a determination to grow in God and find how he is to relate to the Body of Christ. The challenges can occur in knowing how to communicate and relate both to believers and unbelievers. One of the stumbling blocks in communicating can show up when you discover you do not necessarily agree with the beliefs of other people. This does not need to end up in divisiveness, but there can be an attitude of heart where a person grows in the spirit and learns how not to break oneness.
SHOW NOTES:
Everyone is included in His Body; no one is excluded.
There may be things that we have believed in the past that we may need to drop.
When we have been brought into a level of oneness and we hear something that we may not agree with, we can hold that thought before the Lord in order to get a revelation of that thing.
When a group gets into a discussion and they don't agree, they don't need to get into a debate or determine to prove a point.
Everyone is able to state their beliefs, but can determine not to “push” those beliefs. If everyone does this, then you can have disagreement without division.
Competitiveness is related to immaturity. Every one of us comes through a stage of getting out of your immaturity to drop the individual focus and come into a being a part of the Body.
QUOTATIONS:
Oneness is not a human ability. The oneness that we're talking about is a oneness of spirit.
If I am with a people who love the Lord also, then there is a oneness commanded to maintain by the scriptures,: “Be diligent to preserve the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Hold it in your spirit that you don't have to defend what the Lord is showing, whether it is right or wrong.
God brings the deliverance from competitiveness.
The reason you have all these competition and comparing is because you really don't know who you are in the Lord.
REFERENCES:
I CORINTHIANS 12:13 “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”
EPHESIANS 4:23 “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
I CORINTHIANS 13:4-5 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered”
MATTHEW 20:21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She said to Him, “command that in your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”
JOEL 2:7-8 “They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like soldiers; and they each march in line, nor do they deviate from their paths. They do not crowd each other, they march everyone in his path; when they burst through the defenses, they do not break ranks.”
EPHESIANS 2:14 “For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall.”
TAKEAWAY:
By one Spirit, we all have been baptized into one Spirit. It's our spirits that are one. This quality of spirit enables us to hear and speak by the Lord's Spirit, and also be able to preserve the unity. When we don't have a point to prove, when we lay down our own tendency to “be right”, we are learning how the Lord is working a maturity in the Body of Christ.