230430 Communion: Undivided In Love

Undivided and United Because of Love

Context of 1 Corinthians 11 is judgement and discord

Factions and divisions 1 Cor 3:4 “For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?”

The danger of factions and divisions

The body split and the message dissolved

The benefit of factions and divisions

It makes apparent who is saved and who is not

You will know them by their fruit

Christ came to unite - unify us with Himself and with His Father

John 17:20-23 ““I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even 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 sent Me. “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.”

John 13:35 ““By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.””