One of the main things we must do and care for in the genuine church life is to maintain the oneness by practicing the genuine one accord. When this happens, the church is dead, the Body becomes a cut-up corpse, and the Lord does not have a proper testimony. Things such as the world, religion, people’s ambition, different opinions and teachings, many such things have broken the oneness and cut the Body of Christ into millions of peoples, dismembering it. Unfortunately, the oneness of the Body which was given to the church was not kept and safeguarded by the people of God but rather, it was broken about all kinds of things. The oneness has been given to us it has been deposited with us, the children of God, and we need to guard it, safe keep it, and practice and apply it. The Lord Jesus prayed for this oneness in John 17 He didn’t teach us concerning oneness, but He prayed concerning it, that we as His disciples will be one, even as He and the Father are one. 4 we see the oneness and we realize the need for our keeping of the oneness we need to safeguard it and preserve it, guard it and practice it, so that we may have the genuine one accord. However, even though we have this oneness, we need to practice it we need to practice, apply, and spend the oneness of the Body, which we already have so that this oneness becomes in our experience the one accord. The church is one, just as God is one, and the top attribute of the church is oneness. If we don’t have the oneness, we don’t have the church. The first attribute of the church is the first attribute of the Triune God: oneness there is one God, and there is one church, and this church is in oneness. 4:3-6 we see seven one’s that is the base of the oneness of the church. The Genuine One Accord in the Church is the Practice of the Oneness of the Body, which is the Oneness of the Spirit The commanded blessing is upon the brothers who are dwelling together, living together, in oneness and in one accord. The one accord is the master key to all the blessings in the New Testament if we lose the one accord, if we have just a hint of divisiveness, separation, or being sectarian, we will miss the Lord’s blessing. What we need is not more knowledge, more points, and more doctrines we need to be before the Lord to practice the church life according to His heart’s desire, and for this, the genuine one accord is a vital factor. May we bring these vital factors to the Lord, and in particular the factor of the one accord, so that we may have the master key to all the blessing in the New Testament. We need to cooperate with the Lord in a living way so that the church life in all the local churches would be strong, healthy, and this would draw people to the Lord and to His purpose. So we need to pay attention to the vital factors for the recovery of the church life, and one of the most important factors is the genuine one accord, which is the practice of the oneness of the Body, the oneness of the Spirit. What the Lord desires to gain is the local churches as the testimony of Jesus in all the localities on earth He wants to gain the church life in locality after locality for the testimony of Jesus.Īre we the testimony of Jesus in our local church? We need to say that, in all good conscience before the Lord, the church life everywhere is not yet where it should be, that is, it is not yet as healthy, strong, rich, prevailing, and impactful as it should be. There are many believers in Christ who are lovers and seekers of Christ, and they love the Lord and pursue Him with a pure heart our desire is to bring the ministry of life to them for them to enjoy the Lord, even more, experience Him according to His divine revelation, and see something of God’s economy and the Body of Christ.įurthermore, our burden is to strengthen the local churches, that is, to strengthen the local church life in all the localities on earth. We have the burden, on one hand, to spread the divine truths to all the brothers and sisters in Christ, all the members of the Body of Christ, so that they would enjoy the Lord, experience Christ, grow in life, and be built up as the Body of Christ. This week in our deeper consideration of the vital factors for the practice of the church life we come to The Factor of the Genuine One Accord. The genuine one accord in the church is the practice of the oneness of the Body, which is the oneness of the Spirit we already have the oneness, we just need to keep it, spend it, apply it, and practice it so that we may be in one accord.
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