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Unity in the Church

All the believers were one in heart and mind. Acts 4:32, NIV.

When the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the early church, "the multitude of
them that believed were of one heart and of one soul" (Acts 4:32). The
Spirit of Christ made them one. This is the fruit of abiding in Christ. . .
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We have need of divine illumination. Every individual is striving to become
a center of influence, and until God works for His people, they will not see
that subordination to God is the only safety for any soul. His transforming
grace upon human hearts will lead to unity that has not yet been realized,
for all who are assimilated to Christ will be in harmony with one another.
The Holy Spirit will create unity.

The prayer of Christ to His Father, contained in the seventeenth chapter of
John, is to be our church creed. It shows us that our difference and
disunion are dishonoring to God. . . .

No advice or sanction is given in the Word of God to those who believe the
third angel's message to lead them to suppose that they can draw apart. This
you may settle with yourselves forever. It is the devising of unsanctified
minds that would encourage a state of disunion. The sophistry of men may
appear right in their own eyes, but it is not truth and righteousness. "For
he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle
wall of partition between us; . . . that he might reconcile both unto God in
one body by the cross" (Eph. 2:14-16).

Christ is the uniting link in the golden chain which binds believers
together in God. There must be no separating in this great testing time. . .
. The children of God constitute one united whole in Christ, who presents
His cross as the center of attraction. All who believe are one in Him.

Human feelings will lead men to take the work into their own hands, and the
building thus becomes disproportionate. The Lord therefore employs a variety
of gifts to make the building symmetrical. Not one feature of the truth is
to be hidden or made of little account. God cannot be glorified unless the
building, "fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord." A
great subject is here comprehended, and those who understand the truth for
this time must take heed how they hear and how they build and educate others
to practice. . . .

When every specification which Christ has given has been carried out in the
true, Christian spirit, then, and then only, Heaven ratifies the decision of
the church, because its members have the mind of Christ, and do as He would
do were He upon the earth (Selected Messages, book 3, pp. 20-22).

>From Lift Him Up - Page 296

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