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| The Oneness and the One Accord - The one unique God as the God of Oneness has His one economy in which He desires every positive eternal thing to come out from this unique God as the God of Oneness alone. | |||
| What Does it Mean to be "Born Again"? - At the moment we first believed in the Lord Jesus and received Him as our Savior, something wonderful happened to us. The Bible describes it by saying that we were "born again". (Requires Flash plugin) | |||
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| The Living Out of the Oneness - After covering Genesis, the gospels, Acts, Romans, and Ephesians we come to the book of Philippians. Philippians shows us the living out of the oneness as luminaries. The living out of the oneness as luminaries is through three things: One living, one pursuing, and one fellowship. | |||
| The Oneness Among the Lord, the Apostle, and the Church - There is a oneness among the Lord, the Apostle Paul, and the church in Philippi. Christ is the center. Then with Christ there is the apostles. Then with the apostles there are the saints. There is a oneness among the three. | |||
| To Know Him and the Power of His Resurrection - To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering is a matter of experience. To have the experience of the power of resurrection means to be put to death and the heavenly Christ in resurrection uplifted me. | |||
| Oneness Comes By Having the Saints In Your Heart - Oneness doesn't come by doing a lot of things. Oneness comes by having the saints one by one in your heart. If a brother is not in my heart there is no oneness. | |||
| To Lay Hold We Pursue the Lord - To pursue the Lord means to persecuting. We pursue the Lord so that we may lay hold of that for which He also has laid hold of. To lay hold of Christ includes a process of pursuing. | |||
| Producing the Oneness in the Local Church - Many books of the New Testament talk about the church life but in the book of Colossians you see that Christ and only Christ is everything. When you have Christ, you automatically have oneness. Christ is the unique oneness. | |||
| Christ is the Reality of Oneness - When we practice the church life we must be with the saints and only care for Christ. Christ is the unique source, element, substance, nature, sphere, and living out of the reality of oneness. If you take away Christ it is very easy to become a source of division. | |||
| Christ is the Head of the Body - Christ is the Head of the Body, the church. Without a head a body becomes a corpse. Practically when life goes out of a head the body becomes dead. The reality of the body is in the head. | |||
| The Oneness is Realized Through the Completing the Word of God - When the word of God is fulfilled, then automatically oneness is present. The Greek word translated completed means fulfilling. It is a subjective word not an objective word. When I experience what is written that word becomes subjective to me. | |||
| Presenting Every Man Full Grown in Christ - It is hard work to raise up a young brother. To do this the young brother needs someone to stand with him and suffer for him. In practicing this we fulfill the word of God on his behalf. | |||
| Struggle For the Body Life - Paul's struggle was according to Christ, the mystery of God. To struggle is not only to suffer but to struggle for the body life. The apostle's suffering is for the saints growth and even more there is a struggling for the building up of the church. | |||
| The Spirit Produces the Oneness of the Body - The oneness of the Spirit is an organic fact. Yet do you realize that the oneness of the Spirit is closely related to the one Body? In Ephesians 4 there is one Body, then one Spirit, one hope of our calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God who is over all which is the issue of the practice of the oneness. | |||
| The Spirit is Related to the Body - Paul says, to endeavor to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace. Then he says, when you keep the oneness of the Spirit, the first manifestation is the one Body. So to have the reality of the oneness of the Spirit you must practice one Body. | |||
| The Substantiation of the Oneness of the Spirit is in the One Body - In our Christian life there are two elements we can never depart from. Firstly, within us, when we are with the saints, there must be spirit. Secondly, when you are in the church life you must see the Body. | |||
| The One Body and the Oneness of the Body - The one body is an organic entity. We share the same life, we have the same nature, we possess the same Christ, we live unto the same purpose, and are bearing the same testimony. Thus, we can say we love one another and there is a reality of the oneness among us. | |||
| The Body was Produced in the Resurrection of Christ Substantiated With the Work of the Spirit - When Christ resurrected, we all were regenerated. Our salvation was substantiated when the Spirit began to work on us and operate upon us. When the Spirit operated upon us, then regeneration became our experience. | |||
| The Oneness of the Body is the Practical Living out of the One Body - Because the phrase, "the oneness of the Body" is never mentioned in the Bible we must be very careful in our application of such a phrase. It can only be used in a healthy way when such a oneness is organic. We know we have the oneness of the Body when we are organic, in Spirit, in life, have Christ as our Person, and have the very operation of Christ among us. | |||
| To Keep the Oneness of the Spirit in the Uniting Bond of Peace means "No Issues" - When the one Body is substantiated in the Spirit then automatically there is the oneness of the Body. It is not that we have to make an effort to be one with each other or do a certain thing to be one with each other rather it is an organic fact. | |||
| Misunderstanding Can Cause the God-ordained Administration of the Local Church to be Replaced - The Body of Christ is produced out of resurrection of Christ. In over two thousand years there must be billions of Christians that are the members. But people live in time, so the church always presents itself in time and through localities. When people see the local churches people should see the Body. Every local church should be a local church in action, interaction, fellowshipping with Christ, and taking Christ as the center, as the Head, and as the content of their local church life. | |||
| The Administration of the Local Church Cannot be Replaced Yet No Local Church is Autonomous - The local churches must fellowship with one another, must stand with one another, and must work with one another. No local church can be autonomous, yet all the churches should have a local administration answering to Christ. Yet it is easy for us to say because we are for the one Body, the oneness of the Body, the local administration disappears. But in the Bible we see every local church is to be appreciated. | |||
| Christ is the Life and the Vitality of the Body - When Christ is gone, everything is gone. When the oneness of the Body is mentioned, it focuses only on Christ. Because only when we focus on Christ, the oneness is there. If we begin to focus on how others walk and on how others speak issues will come out. We must learn to say when the churches come together what we have in common not to say what is our differences. | |||
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