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ONENESS THE KEY TO UNLOCK GOD’S FULNESS
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In this day, the sons are called to be one, as the Father and the Son are one. Since the first-century church Christ has provided the way for oneness. To the extent that we are open in our hearts to one another, the fullness of Christ creates the oneness. Every part of the Body of Christ is needed to contribute to that flow of oneness. We open our hearts to be perfected in this oneness.
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The will of God for us is that we all may be one.
When Christ said, “It is finished,” He was pointing to the fact that everything had been given for His believers to become one.
The provision of Christ's presence to be one has not been perfected or the world would have believed in Jesus Christ.
The Scriptures reveal that the provision for oneness is in the earth, we just need to believe by faith and make the commitment to become one.
Our relationships should be the practical application of this oneness as we relate and function in our families, churches and other connections.
The first-century church was an example, as they were of one heart and soul. (Acts 4:32). Thousands were brought into the church, because they witnessed the fullness of oneness in those believers.
In every instance that we see barriers to the oneness, we need to determine to break down those barriers in ourselves and in our brothers.
Christ's final prayer before His resurrection was that we be one—let us answer that call with all our hearts.
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The fullness of Christ is already in the earth—in the Body of Christ.
To the extent that we are open in our hearts to one another, that creates the oneness.
God has already put His fullness the Body of Christ, but because of schisms, division, or whatever, we're not receiving.
The hard hurdle is to be open to your brother with all his faults, “problems.”
If we're not walking in it—not by theory, not by faith, but by actual experience—we have to look to ourselves, because the problem is not in Christ; the problem is within us.
I want to voice my oneness—my trusting the Lord—to give me the ability to reach into your heart and allow you to reach into mine.
Whatever God is giving you to do that is a little diverse from the rest of us, exercise it; but make sure you exercise it in a sense that it is a part of the whole thing that we're doing.
The keys in this—the practical keys—are the oneness and the love.
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Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as we are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the work may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, 'who will ascend into heaven?' (that is to bring Christ down) or “who will descend into the abyss?' (that is to bring Christ up from the dead) “ But what does it say? “the word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching.
For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the Body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
TAKE AWAY:
Oneness is more than what we can do on an individual basis. This s the day for the Father's family. In the whole time since the first-century church, the oneness has fallen short of the manifesting the flow of oneness that brought forth the thousands into believing in Jesus Christ. The fullness of Christ is already in the earth as a provision, we need to commit to hearing Christ speaking in each one of His Body. By His grace, we open up to participate in Christ coming forth in His oneness.
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