11/15/2023 0 Comments Christian cross unity quotes![]() ![]() Did I tell you that already? We’re starting there. But the working out of that doctrine has definitely changed in my own life. Fundamentally, I mean, the truths, the doctrines of Scripture – I’m fundamentally now where I was twenty or thirty years ago. (incomplete thought) I don’t think fundamentally I’ve changed from my younger years. You may continue to grow and maybe shift some in your understanding and the outworking of this. And some of the conclusions you’ve come to may not be exactly right. ![]() I imagine that if you’re like me, if you have any age on you at all, you’ve had to work through some of these things and try to come to conclusions. And this is another one of those subjects that can be difficult. I want to do some clarifying hopefully this morning, laying some foundation, and then we’ll get into some more practical things tonight and tomorrow. I’m going somewhere with this – three messages, the Lord willing, on the subject of Christian unity. I’m going to be guided by my notes this morning. We must not at all seek to be unified with others who don’t believe in the Jesus of the Bible. We must not only understand but also define unity the way Jesus and the Bible does. This was a main theme in Christ’s prayer just before He went to the cross. The bricks must be cemented together.Unity is foundational and essential to Christ’s people. John Piperīe united with other Christians. God’s family, which comes into being by regeneration, is more central and more lasting than the human family that comes into being by procreation. Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity it is the very unity of hell. We must be very careful to draw this distinction between essentials and non-essentials lest we become guilty of schism and begin to rend the body of Christ. Not to be in fellowship with those who are born again is to be guilty of schism, which is sinful. Moodyīelievers are never told to become one we already are one and are expected to act like it. I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided. Watchman Neeįaith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one. The revelation of God is positively essential. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. And whatever is for our good is for His glory. Because we are united with Christ, whatever is for His glory is also for our good. Gordonīecause you and I are in Christ Jesus, His glory and our good are linked together. There is always one more than you can see. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. If there are two persons praying, there are three. ![]() One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. It not only attracts the particles of iron to itself by the magnetic virtue, but by this virtue it unites them one to another. The union of Christians to Christ, their common head, and by means of the influence they derive from him, one to another, may be illustrated by the loadstone. In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.
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