The Unity of the Body

But this is poor decision making and that church will crumble and fall. Doctrine, the doctrine of Jesus Christ is the foundation on which the churc h it built.

Matthew 16:16–18 KJV 1900

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

1 Corinthians 3:11 KJV 1900

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

I want to share some grounds for christian unity. These are things that everyone in this room shares and that everyone who professors Christ should share as well.

Ephesians 4:4–6 KJV 1900

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

1: One Body

This is the body of Christ in which each believer is a member. As we are members of Christs universal body so to are we to submit ourselves to the local body and be joined together in corporate fellowship.

Each of us is called, each of us has purpose, each of has have worth.

1 Corinthians 12:15–21 KJV 1900

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

2: One Spirit

We are each filled with the same fulness of the same Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:11 KJV 1900

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

We are all to be led by the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit, Worship in the Spirit.

3: One Hope

What is the one great hope that every single believer shares? The returning of the Lord Jesus to take His church up to Heaven.

We look forward to different days, but we all look forward this this event!

Titus 2:13 KJV 1900

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

4: One Lord

This refers to our Saviour, Jesus Christ. All Christians agree in the exclusivity of Jesus as mans only means of Salvation.

Acts 4:12 KJV 1900

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

5: One Baptism

Now there are many baptisms mention in Scripture - Water, Spirit, Suffering and the like.

However with the context of the “One Body” the “One Baptism” Paul is referring to is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that makes us a bart of that Body.

1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV 1900

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

And Finally:

6: One God and Father

The unity of Christians ultimately stems from the fact that we all have the same Father. He is Our Father who art in Heaven.

Because he is my father and your father, that means that we are related, we are the family of God. I am your brother, you are my sisters and brothers.

Ephesians 2:19–22 KJV 1900

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Listen to the Words of Jesus as we close:

John 17:20–23 KJV 1900

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

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