What Is Unity Really

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What Is Unity Really?

• Psalms 1331-3

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God Hates Division

• It is a hindrance to the gospel (Jn. 1720-21)
• It is an abomination (Prov. 616-19)
• It is a work of the flesh (Gal. 519-21)
• It results in self-destruction (Lk. 1117)
• It results in the wrath of God (Rom. 28)

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Unity Is Important Because Of

• Christs promise (Mt. 1618-19)
• Christs prayer (Jn. 1720-23)
• Christs passion (Eph. 211-22)
• The New Testament pattern
• The churchs practice (Acts 242, 44-47 432-35)

• The apostles teaching (1 Cor. 417 717
  1433 161)
• Pauls plea (1 Cor. 110-13)
• Pauls petition (Eph. 41-6)
• Pauls prayer (Phil. 21-4)
• Peters precept (1 Pet. 38-9)

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Unity

• Unity henotes denotes (hen-ot-ace') oneness,
  i.e. (figuratively) unanimity (KJVunity)
• endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in
  the bond of peace. (Eph 43)
• till we all come to the unity of the faith and
  of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect
  man, to the measure of the stature of the
  fullness of Christ (Eph 413)

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Fellowship

• Fellowship koinonia koinonia (koy-nohn-ee'-ah)
  partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or
  (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction
  (KJV-- (to) communicate (-ation), communion,
  (contri-) distribution, fellowship)

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koinonia (koinonia)

• Distribution (2 Cor. 913)
• Contribution (Rom. 1526)
• Communicate, communication (Phm. 16 Heb.
  1316)

• Communion (1 Cor. 1016 2 Cor. 614 1314)
• Fellowship (Acts 2242 1 Cor. 19 2 Cor. 84
  Gal. 29 Phil. 15 21 310 1 Jn. 13, 6-7)

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Unity

• IS NOT

• 100 agreement (Acts 1536-41 Rom. 141-23)
• Compromise (Rev. 212-17, 18-29)

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Pauls Platform For UnityEphesians 41-6

• Body
• Spirit
• Hope
• Lord
• Faith
• Baptism
• God

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Matters Of Salvation

• We Cannot

• Add (Rev. 2218)
• Subtract (Rev. 2219)
• Change (Gal. 16-9 1 Tim. 13 63-6)
• Substitute (Mt. 157-9)
• Go beyond (2 Jn. 9-11)

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Salvation, Conviction, Rights Opinions

• Matters of salvation involve those things that
  are clearly right or wrong to honest students of
  the Bible
• Conviction may involve those things that are
  not clearly right or wrong to honest students of
  the Bible
• Rights involve those liberties that one enjoys
  in the Lord in the realm of things that are right
  
• Opinions center around what is good, better and
  best among those who are right

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Unity

• IS NOT

• 100 agreement (Acts 1536-41 Rom. 141-23)
• Compromise (Rev. 212-17, 18-29)

• Peace (Mt. 1034-37 Jas. 317)
• Union

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Unity

• Unity Is

• Oneness (Jn. 1720, 23)
• Spirit (Phil. 127)
• Soul (Phil. 127)

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Unity

• Unity Is

• Sameness
• Speech (1 Pet. 411 Tit. 21)
• Mind (Rom. 1216 2 Cor. 1311 Phil. 21-5)
• Judgment (Jn. 724)
• Concern (1 Cor. 1225)
• Love (Phil. 22)

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Unity In Christ

• I do not pray for these alone, but also for
  those who will believe in Me through their word
  that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in
  Me, and I in You that they also may be one in
  Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
  And the glory which You gave Me I have given
  them, that they may be one just as We are one I
  in them, and You in Me that they may be made
  perfect in one, and that the world may know that
  You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have
  loved Me. (Jn. 1720-23)

• They are one in will (Jn. 434 530 638)
• They are one in word (Jn. 334 1424 177-8)
• They are one in works (Jn. 94 174)

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How Can We Have Unity?

• We must agree that religious division is sinful
  (1 Cor. 110-13)
• We must agree that unity is possible (Acts
  242-47)
• We must agree that unity is important (Jn.
  1720-23)
• We must agree upon a standard of authority (2
  Tim. 316-17)

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How Can We Have Unity?

• We must discuss our differences (Acts 151-2,
  5-6 171-4)
• We must give up anything and everything that
  promotes division with the exception of truth
  (Prov. 2323 Jn. 831-32)
• We must diligently keep the unity of the spirit
  and the bond of peace (Eph. 41-3)

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Parting Words

• Sirs, ye are brethren why do ye wrong one to
  another? (Acts 726)
• Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me
  and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy
  herdsmen for we are brethren. (Gen. 138)