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Unity is a pretty much a buzz word these days.
Unity means different things to different people.
And on some things…if you can’t be part of the “unified,” you’re an outcast.
Unity is an important term to look at though.
Why?
Because it is mentioned in one way or another all through our Bible.
Unity, really, is one of the most talked about subjects in all of scripture.
God through the whole Old Testament called His people to follow Him, worship only Him…in unity.
Moses spoke quite a few times to the whole group of Israelites and encouraged them to be united together…under God’s love and direction.
The push for unity didn’t end in the OT.
Jesus begins speaking of the unity of the Kingdom…the new Kingdom He was bringing.
He encouraged unity.
Promised that the Spirit of God would be the unifying agent for all of His believers.
Paul and others then, through the other letters in the NT, talk about and implore Christians to be unified.
To walk and think and act in unity.
Unity is a big deal to God.
And there’s a reason.
Today, we hear this word a lot when it comes to cultural differences…in politics…in academia…there’s a call to be unified in what is popular for today....and that really means…whatever is popular for today.
Unity for the country.
Unity under a certain political flag.
Unity for cultural movements.
And …for sure we often hear the phrase…unified against…certain things or ideologies as well.
Now, if we think about it…there’s got to be a reason there’s so much emphasis on unity in the Bible.
Two of my personal main reference points in scripture …and this is just what helps me think when I’m studying.
The first is the fall…and what we lost.
Closeness/oneness with God, with each other and with creation.
And I think we see that today.
The second is Jesus’ prayer recorded for us by the apostle John in His account of Jesus…the book of John chapter 17.
What was lost corresponds to what Jesus is praying for in John 17.
We lost unity with God and each other…and then in John 17, before His death and resurrection, Jesus prays for our unity with Him and the Father…and with each other.
It looks like this idea of unity is what we’re missing.
Unity with the God of the universe.
Not that we become one with Him in that we are God alike…no…but that we are as close as we could possibly be …creation with creator.
And unity with each other…not divided or divisive.
But one with each other in that we all know who the creator is…and we know His love for us in that He sent His son to die for our sin…he died because…we’ve been separated from Him…dis-unified.
So unity is a big deal.
The church is called over and over to be unified.
There are warnings over disunity.
There are examples given …fingers pointed at disunity and how dangerous it is.
There are also examples of unity as well…and it is praised and encouraged.
And I think this makes sense to all of us.
It’s just hard to sometimes carry out and discuss.
We’ve just covered nearly 8 weeks of very specific beliefs…truths…that we hold to as a church family.
And then we come to the unity of the church.
That we believe in the unity of the church and its importance.
When we think about unity we might think that we all need to think and act and look like each other.
You know…dress code and appearance code.
Like we all need the same haircut.
I think we’d probably all choose mine.
We would need to be unified in our favorite songs and programs.
Do everything together…all the time.
Eat the same foods.... Yeah I think you’re getting the picture that that’s not possible.
True.
We are all different.
But we’re called to unity.
Now sometimes when the world looks at us…sometimes they go to those types of things and think we’re just cookie cutter robot followers.
So I think , if you look around…we don’t look alike.
If we were to combine all the churches in the area together…we’d really not look alike.
There are some of us that go home for scrambled egg sandwiches and some go to wendy’s and some wait a little bit and go to el camperos.
Some of us are old…some are ....older.
Some like the Cleveland Browns and some...
We’re different people.
I don’t think that God has called us to be robots or anything similar.
And for certain…if you were to get all the churches together…and look at our worship patterns…wow they would look different too.
So lets start there…we are different.
We have uniqueness.
And that’s part of creation…I certainly believe that.
There’s beauty in uniqueness.
And…we’re still called to be one…unified.
Now…who calls for the church…for believers to be unified?
God does…Jesus prays for it.
Wow.
Can you feel Jesus’ heart in those words?
Remember what was lost in the beginning…humanity’s oneness, unity, closeness with God.
And here we have Jesus praying for that for those who will believe in Him and His purpose for everyone.
This gives me the impression that this isn’t just wisdom for how to have a successful church.
There is more to this.
So much more...
It’s the reason He sent His son…to be close to us again.
And we hear that in Christ’s prayer…I pray that they’ll be unified…as one…so that…others will know about you and me.
The Shema…its a very powerful passage…in the Old Testament.
It is a reminder of what is true and what Israel needed to remember at all times…to be unified…to be close to each other and with God.
Here Oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One…Love the lord your God with all your heart, soul and might.
And then Moses goes on and says…teach this stuff to your kids too…don’t let them forget that this is reality…this is real life.
Talk about God, think about Him…because…if not…you’ll all forget and then other things will come up in life as more important…and when that happens, unity with the Lord and with each other will fall apart.
Now part of that is Ed’s paraphrase…but this is what it’s about.
Unity is what God wants…
In a way…the Israelites ...their unity showed other nations, in that time…their true identity.
They followed God…the creator.
And so their identity was found in God.
They didn’t come up with their own identity.
They were God’s children.
We come the New Testament…and believe me…the idea of unity is huge to the church and we could probably do a year’s worth of teaching on unity alone…it goes so many places.
This next passage is one of many calls for unity for unity in the church in the New Testament.
This is Paul talking to the church in Ephesus.
This one little verse is packed with stuff for us....as a church family and as part of Jesus’ whole world church family.
This one little verse gives us … ok it says every effort.
Paul isn’t talking about about a half hearted or half selfish attempt at unity.
Every effort.
Who’s unity?…the unity of the Holy Spirit…how? through the bond of peace.
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