Christ Lordship Brings Oneness

Live Behind The Veil

*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. INTRODUCTION: We are coming into a relationship with one another. What kinds of things can we do that create a deeper relationship? We know that Christ emphasized our relationship to one another, when He taught the second commandment to love one another. We are only able to love as He commands, when His love is moving through us. Then we begin to seek a unity of Spirit with the brethren. It's Christ's being Lord in our lives that brings the oneness in the Body of Christ.

SHOW NOTES:

• The Book of Acts begins with the collective experience of the disciples being gathered in one place for Pentecost. They had been directed by Jesus to go to the upper room and wait. After many days, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

• There are many accounts in the Scriptures of the brethren entering into spiritual experiences simultaneously.

• Many sons of God are coming forth as they cry for the Lord Jesus Christ to rule and reign in their lives. It's a cry that brings a unity.

• God is bringing His people into a new level of awareness where the will of God is being revealed for the Body of Christ more than for each individual.

• There is coming an advanced attitude of “we and ours” in place of the attitude of “me and mine”.

• Body ministry does not automatically happen when members come together and claim they are one; there must be a dedication to become one.

QUOTATIONS:

• If you agree on something that is a spiritual entity that God is directing you to reach into, and you reach into that with somebody who has the same cry in their heart, and you touch that together, there's power that's loosed.

• We actually discover it in one another—the same depth, the same cry, the same drive.

• The challenge is not in combining what we think to come into unity, but it's laying down what we think and taking on the Father.

• There has to be in us the willingness to say, “Lord, I hear what You're speaking , and I am willing to drop what I think out of the equation, because It's Your will that I'm believing for, not mine but Yours.”

REFERENCES:

Psalm 133:1

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity.

Ephesians 4:12-13

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the statue which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

Acts 4:23-24

When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them, and when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.”

Acts 2:1

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Matthew 18:19-20

“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”

Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor.

TAKE AWAY:

Oneness can be a deeper experience than the normal human bond or friendship. There can be a level of relating that brings a dropping of the individual in order to blend with another person or group of people. The experience of lifting up our voices in one accord, as the Scriptures talk about, reveals Him in His greatness. He is creating His many-membered Body that truly walks in His lordship.