The More Abundant Life - 443 - Unity in the Church

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443 - Unity in the Church
Announcing: The Weekend in the Word
This year's weekend in the Word, the theme will be "Seeking Spiritual Matters and Edifying the Church." I am inviting teachers from around the country to teach on this vitally important subject from the accuracy of The Word.
Starting with a meal on Thursday, July 25th, at 6 pm. The weekend will close after breakfast on Sunday morning, July 28th. Be sure it is on your calendars! All the information and how to register are available on the website: stevejaynes.co... (stevejaynes.co...)
The Notes from the Podcast
God bless you. Below are all the Scriptures written out so you can follow along with the podcast “Unity in the Church.”
We are in unity, spiritually, because we have the same spirit. We have the same Lord, Jesus Christ. By our freedom of will, we can follow our head, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how we have Unity.
Ephesians 4:3 “Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Every part of the body of Christ can work together. We take our orders from the head. The thing we need to remember, though, is that the head coordinates, but it does not control. One of the great things God has given us is freedom of will. We can choose to believe or not to believe.
Ephesians 4:16 “From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”
Looking at the analogy that the body of Christ is compared to a human body, we see how every member has a function and can work together with the other parts of the body. Every part is needed, and every part has a function to operate. The difference is in the human body, the brain tells the hand to do something, and it does it. The brain communicates with the foot to take a step forward, and it does. But in the spiritual body where Jesus Christ is the head, we have to decide by our freedom of will if we will do what the head says. We can learn how to hear the head and do what the head wants, and then we can unite with one another.
Colossians 2:6 - 15 “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
Our fullness is in Christ.
1 John 3:8 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
Jesus Christ destroyed the works of the devil. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
Colossians 2:16 - 18 “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,”
Watch out for those who want you to worship spiritual beings with spiritual and personal experiences.
Colossians 2:19 “And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.”
It's all about who we are in him, Christ, not what we do-not being concerned with what we do, which is religion. We need to stay connected to the Head. We can do that by manifestation, especially speaking in tongues and staying in the Word. We need to look at the Life of Christ so that we can share in it.
Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
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