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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Romans 12:16
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
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The Word of God very clearly demands that we believers should have no division among us. {1Cor.12:25} That does not mean that we are all saying, or singing, exactly the same words or notes but rather that they should blend together in the sweet sound of a perfect harmony as today’s verse in the English Standard Version of the bible states.

Moved by the Holy Spirit, the apostle Paul wrote, “Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.” {1Cor.1:10} That is stating even today that our many, many divisions make it clear that we are not ‘complete’ and still have a way to go! Yes, Jesus is ‘The Way!’ {Jn.14:6}

We know the importance of our relationship with the Father made possible only by our right relationship with His Son Jesus, but it all too often seems that we have lost sight of how dependent that relationship is with our relationship with one another! A reasonable paraphrase would be to say that we don’t love Jesus any more than we love that brother or sister who likes different hymns than we do, or who dresses differently than we do, or who thinks that the sermon should come after the offering or vice versa! Etc., etc. ad nauseam!

The way we treat them is exactly the way we treat Jesus Christ our Lord! So He has said to us, “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.” {Mat.25:40} That is a very serious truth that should keep us in mind that it is written, “If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.” {1Jn.4:20}

We are instructed to be diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit because there is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.” {Eph.4:3-6} So, “Finally, all of you, have unity of mind (GR: homophroŻn — harmonious), sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.” {1Pet.3:8} Or else, you get a cacophony — a din, a clanging cymbal! {1Cor.13:1}

Prayerfully ponder the words of Jesus as He prayed to the Father:

"that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
    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 world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” (John 17:21-23)

UNITY IN LOVE, A SWEET SOUND