# 14 In series. UNITY in the BODY OF CHRIST.

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Note: (JB) CONTRARY to the modern movement, called Ecumenical-ism, under which ALL earth's religions are equal, thus all need UNITY in love, and fellowship, right? It's all the rage today, with all denominations rushing full speed back to Mother Rome, and her dogmas.
   SORRY, but read the title again and again, we are UNITE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST! 

 HOWEVER, Rome is slowly replacing Jesus Christ with Mary, because all the "MAN-MADE RELIGIONS are very comfortable with a Female goddess, just as in old Babylon whose goddess' name rhymes with Easter,[ Ishtar]but whose FERTILITY SYMBOLS were rabbits and eggs, and Pine cones!

     THE CHOIR DIRECTOR..

    Raises his baton, and the crowd listens expectantly. But the moment the choir begins to sing, the audience shudders at the disharmony they hear. Startled and annoyed by the cacophony, the people cover their ears, and leave the hall. Not withstanding the director seems quite pleased with the performance. He smiles with pleasure at the horrible sounds. Here and there member of the choir try to get those closest to them to sing the same song and on the same key. For a brief moment they seem to succeed, but cooperation is sporadic at best, and the tenor of the concert does not change.

    The problem is that the choir is following the wrong director. As long as he's in charge, harmony will be impossible to achieve.

     THE WRONG SPIRITUAL LEADER.

       It's hardly necessary to continue this silly parable in order to make the pointy that the result of the following the wrong director is evident in all parts of the world. We see it in the chaos between nations, between brothers and sisters, between parents and children, and between Husbands and Wives. Some people, quite exercised over these problems, manage to come up with human solutions that seem to work for a time, but the concert will never really change until Christ rather than Satan is chosen as the Director!  

   The apostle Paul used the metaphor of the body to illustrate unity. Christ is the Head, from whom "''the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds them, that His grace was manifested..

     .Ephesians 4:15-16 " But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:  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."

     Ephesians 5:23  "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the Savior of the body."

      Can we even create the picture in our minds, one in which each part of our body has its own mind? Your feet say "I need a bath," but the rest of your body says, I am hungry , fix dinner now"!  How would, or could such a person ever get anything done? It's only when the "Brian" takes charge, and all the members of our body begins to work as an single unit, can there be progress!

     However as Paul noted in 1 Corinthians 2, the very same thing is true in the Spiritual Realm, church member must work cooperatively together or chaos results.

     1 Corinthians 12:13-14 " 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.   For the body is not one member, but many"

Note: Thus if all members did their "Own Thing", the church would overflow with disharmony!

Note: This post began with the remark that the only unity worth while is that with Christ,.why? Well for one, there's not ONE WORD, not even a hint, nor a read between the lines message, in that THE WORD OF GOD, tells us about Mary's resurrection from the her grave, to be in Heaven with her Son! NOT ONE WORD! Thus its' all only the Traditions of men!  We who want Jesus must accept the fact, that men do lie!

     2 Peter 2:1 " But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.".-------

     Isaiah 8:20 " To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

     Therefore if Satan, the author of chaos, controls the members of the body instead of Christ, there will be no possibility of Christ's Church functioning in unity, UNLESS of course, it's for the wrong purpose! WE have all seen daily, a religion acting within the wrong purpose, by looking at ISIS, but please know Rome operated in this same fashion for 1260 years from 538 to 1798 A.D.  in the way we can say :her motto was {and still is} BELIEVE AS WE SAY OR DIE!"  She to this very day, still claims the only right to determine what and who is heresy and a heretic, then claims the right to kill those so deemed, to "Protect others for their ideas"! Just as the fanatics in ISIS, right? 

QUESTION: is the why of this this verse......Revelation 18:4  "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."

Note: Just as today, there's only two choices, Christ or Satan, and those refusing to choose, they have already chosen Satan by default! The Bible has symbolized two women as the church, Christ's Church is the woman in white {Revelation 12] and the apostate church, as the woman in Scarlet and Purple sitting upon the Beast power.of Revelation 13,17 and 18.chapters.Who is the Beast Power, Rome and the Second beast is U S of A. [Rev. 13: 11-12]

NOTE:   (JB) 

   There in not a a way in God's Green earth, that we can take ALL of earth's so-called "RELIGIONS", and put them all together into a pot marked 'Heaven Bound', because it takes only a little error, to spoil and taint the whole as apostasy!Even if they call unity in love and fellowship, or The Ecumenical Movement.No one can mix error with truth and still have 100% truth! What one does get is a Religious STEW! A stew not capable of feeding anyone other than Satan's ego!

IMPORTANCE OD UNITY IN CHRIST, NOT MEN.

     Speaking of unity, The Bible writers stress that differences such as gender, race, wealth, and intellect, should not hinder the body of Christ. Yes, these differences do exist but anyone in Christ is a new being from whom the LORD has removed all such barriers that divide and sow disharmony......

     Ephesians 2:15-16  "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:"

   Colossians 3:11  "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." [ + Gal.3:28]

Note: IF we ALL except the fact that God The Father of us all, then we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, agree?

     John 17:20-23 " 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."

Note: John 17 is the longest prayer by Jesus in the Bible, please read it all!

    The unity He prayed for was that His disciples then and now, achieve the response to His prayer will give us the ability to fulfill His purpose of declaring to the world, that Jesus died to save us from our sins.

    As one body, with many members the church brings together people fro m every nation, tribe, and tongue, and people. Through the revelation of Jesus christ in the Holy Bible, we share of the same faith and hope, becoming witnesses to the whole world.

Further Study: Psalm 133:1. John 17: 20-23. Acts 17:26-27. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17. Galatians 3: 27-29. Ephesians 2: 13-22; 4: 1-6. Colossians 3: 10-15. James 2: 2-9. 1 John 5:1

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