Oneness

In coming to Jesus at salvation we have decided something that will eternally change our lives starting at the moment we believe. We have unashamedly announced we are forfeiting our rights to rule of our own lives and have used our freedom to choose Jesus to be our Lord. Lord means sovereign one. We, by our own confession, have announced Jesus as our Lord and in His first act as our soveriegn, He saves us from the fruit of our own "ruling." He saves us from our sin and consequentially death.

However, as lifestyle goes and church function there is little to be seen that would give evidence to a change in sovereign administration. There is a mindset that each man rules himself and tries his best to do what pleases God in his own strength. This mindset accompanied with a inadequate ability to hear and respond to the Holy Spirit has created a culture of everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

We are in a very important season as a local church and universal church. We are in a season where God is arranging His body with clarity to function at an unprecedented rate resulting in the coporate body of Christ putting on display a clearer representation of the fulness of Christ. This starts with the understanding that the individual christian has given the authority to rule their lives to Christ. Seeking first His rule over all areas of our lives is seeking first the kingdom of God.

The epicenter of this conflict is located in our soul. Will we be ruled by our soul or by the Spirit of Christ? Will we live as an orphan or a son? Will we submit to each other in the reality of God or will we push for our individuality to the point of division? These thoughts frigthen our souls. We have all seen orphans abuse authority, however, God's answer is not to abolish authority but to give us a model of righteous authority in Christ. There is still authority and always will be, the question is: will it be administered in soulishness or in a spirit of righteousness.

If you look at the early church, of which Luke said to be in one heart and one mind, you see something supernatural. This church of jews and gentiles, slaves and free, male and females all major differences and huge obstacles to overcome to be one in heart and mind, yet they did it. How? First, was the clear message they received on Penticost. The message from Peter was simple Jesus Christ of Nazereth is both LORD and CHRIST. The yielding to the Lordship of Christ was the frist and major reason for the unison.

Our bodies made up of many members, that are very different in shape and function yet work together in unison because each part is unconditionally submitted to the head. Therefore, it is clear to say that the division in the church is clearly a result of parts not being submitted to the head. We live in a day where it is not politically correct to render such a judgment, yet the scriptures are clear in there meaning. We must decide political correctness or truth? We, as a local church and the universal church, will only reach her God determined destination by speaking the truth in love not by sacrificing truth to appease the immature.

In this season, God is making one out of many. A oneness deeper than agreed upon doctrine, a oneness that is deeper than being a part of the same instituion. A oneness deeper than being in the same room during a service. We are in a day where God is making a body that will be as one as your physical body, functioning in complete harmony with each other, complementing each other by all parts submitting to the head. He is making us to be of one heart and one mind as we pursue displaying Christ in the earth.

The foundation for these things to come about is the Father-son relationship. God breathed into Adam and he became a living being. Adam is made in the image of God not by the forming of dirt but by the spirit that came out of God and into the dirt. Therefore, Adam came 'out of God.' Now God provided and protected Adam, and Adam was to trust God. This fellowship (joint participation) was how Adam was to rule the earth, bringing heavens order to a the chaos outside of the garden. After the fall Jesus came to model for us the life of a son, by trusting the Father with His life. The father loves the son the son trust the father.

Another place you see this principle is when God created Eve. God created a "helper suitable" for Adam by taking her from his side. This is simple: suitable helpers must be 'out of another.' Jesus the second son had a bride taken from His side on the cross. We are "suitable helpers" for him having been taken from his side. Adam calls Eve 'bone of my bone' and 'flesh of my flesh.' He saw his oneness with her because she was 'from him.' We are to see our oneness with Christ the same way, 'bone of His bone and flesh of his flesh.' We are one with Christ as His bride. Now are submission to our bridegroom and His love for us creates another context for us to see love for one and trust for the other.

The husband-bride and father-son relationship both teach us the same resounding lesson: that two become one through love. The one from which the other comes loves the new one as an extension of themselves. This is Paul's deep revelation in Ephesians 5 of Christ and the church. The one who has come from the other displays their love by trusting their lives to the one they have come 'out of.' Another place this 'out of one' kind-of-love is displayed is in the trinity itself. God who is one became many to display love. Jesus, the word that became flesh, actually came out of God. God actually separated himself to display love. He chose the Father-son relationship. God acting as Father and God acting as son gave us a context of how 'out of the other' love works. The pregenator loves the one that has come out of him as his own and the son-bride loves by trusting himself to the plans and intentions of the other. This is a oneness that no man can separate.

We have entered a season where the Holy Spirit is intertwining our lives together with purposeful intent under the headship of Christ. The Holy Spirit will be assembling the body of Christ, by arranging relationships within the body, to produce a joint participation between parts that will display a greater and clearer representation of Christ and His rule. This arrangement by the Holy Spirit will give a clear distinction and alternative to the orphan way of life. A sign unto you will be this, the Lord will turn the hearts of fathers towards the sons. In the chaos of the orphan culture of the world God is building a group of people so deeply connected through the arrangement of Holy Spirit, built in love and under the Lordship of Christ, that would bring the rule of heaven to earth. The coming of which will call many orphan's to the love of the Father! Your destiny is inseparable from the body of Christ. This then is the fulfillment of the body of Christ and each saint who has believed upon Christ.