CHRISTIANS AND UNITY
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Yes I agree and know it also states that if it is possible be at peace among yourselves.....I agree that unity among God's true people is the proof in the (pudding) if you will.....and my point with love and truth is the simple fact that without both there will be no unity....we cannot compromise the truth for the sake of love as love demands the truth....unity cannot come unless we love based upon truth is the point I was trying to make......sorry if I didn't come across that way as I am a little jet lagged from a flight back from Australia which took like 27 hours hahahh!
Sorry I missed this thread earlier.
"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [SUP]4 [/SUP]and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, [SUP]5 [/SUP]and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Romans 5:3-5
Can I get an amen, for mature character, produced through suffering? That is the goal of our walk with Christ in the New Testament - Christ uses every situation and circumstance to hone our character into maturity. (And thus, unity in the body!)
"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [SUP]4 [/SUP]and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, [SUP]5 [/SUP]and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Romans 5:3-5
Can I get an amen, for mature character, produced through suffering? That is the goal of our walk with Christ in the New Testament - Christ uses every situation and circumstance to hone our character into maturity. (And thus, unity in the body!)
John 1v14: "And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth." (YLT)
Phil 2v5-11: "Let the same disposition, attitude, purpose and mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who existed in the essential form of God, having always been God by nature. He did not deem His own equality with God a prize to be clung to, but emptied Himself and became like other men, taking upon Him the form of a slave, and became obedient unto death upon the cross for our salvation. Because of this astounding sacrificial love God has highly exalted Him and given Him a Name which is above every name, and that at His Name every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Yahweh to the glory of the Father." (paraphrase)
Phil 2v5-11: "Let the same disposition, attitude, purpose and mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who existed in the essential form of God, having always been God by nature. He did not deem His own equality with God a prize to be clung to, but emptied Himself and became like other men, taking upon Him the form of a slave, and became obedient unto death upon the cross for our salvation. Because of this astounding sacrificial love God has highly exalted Him and given Him a Name which is above every name, and that at His Name every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Yahweh to the glory of the Father." (paraphrase)
I get what you are saying too. Life on this earth is not fair and we don't always get what we want and it appears that people doing wrong seem to have a better life than Christians do. It appears they have it all, but then they don't really and in the end destruction is what awaits them if they have not given their lives over to God and the gift of salvation that Jesus offers.
I mean look at Job's life it was good then really bad and unfair from all appearances but then it got really good again. Maybe some of us don't see a reward until heaven and that is where we are directed to lay up our treasure anyway is in heaven and also we are encouraged not to get weary of doing good for in due time we will receive our reward which again would be in heaven.
I don't know why it is that some seem to have it better than others here on earth, but I do know that God is in the saving and character building business. He wants to save us first and then develop the character He knows we are capable of being. However, Jesus Himself prayed that we all would become one as He and the Father are one. Can't get more united than that.
I mean look at Job's life it was good then really bad and unfair from all appearances but then it got really good again. Maybe some of us don't see a reward until heaven and that is where we are directed to lay up our treasure anyway is in heaven and also we are encouraged not to get weary of doing good for in due time we will receive our reward which again would be in heaven.
I don't know why it is that some seem to have it better than others here on earth, but I do know that God is in the saving and character building business. He wants to save us first and then develop the character He knows we are capable of being. However, Jesus Himself prayed that we all would become one as He and the Father are one. Can't get more united than that.