“Now therefore you are no longer strangers and
foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and
members of the household of God having been
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ being the cornerstone.”
Ephesians 2:19,20
One of the best tricks the enemy uses against us is to isolate us from one another. To surround us with people who are not obeying the will of God. Their presence and encouragement makes it seem okay for us to follow our lustful impulses unchecked. It is like we are sheep and the enemy comes and attempts to separate us from the herd, because it is easier to pick us off one by one than in a group. The goal of the enemy is to divide us and then conquer us. There are countless numbers of us who say, “I am following the Lord in my own way and I do not need anyone else to believe”. Or why should I go be around all those “fake Christians” and hypocrites, giving my money to that preacher to buy a new car. The enemy knows there is strength in numbers. No one attacks an opponent that is numerically stronger unless they can separate them. Our Lord demonstrated this concept by using the parable of a king going to war but counts the number of troops on the other side. If the enemy has are more than his, then he makes peace with them.[1]
We all need fellowship and encouragement. This world is against us because we are followers of the Christ. If the enemy can not take us for himself, he wants to make us useless to God through sinfulness. Our witness is compromised by our being bound to sin. We must recognize that we cannot overcome sin of our own power. Our example Jesus, when tempted immediately relied on the Word of God.[2] The enemy wants us alone. Do not fall for this trick. Our Lord is married to the Church we all are the Church, not some building or cathedral. Even Christ continued to go to the synagogue and temple with its hypocrites and thieves. The
God has forced us to be with one another by giving each one of us only a piece of the truth. No one person has all the truth, could you imagine one human with that much power. We have come together each of us with our piece of the truth and when we put them together we have a better understanding of the truth and the true nature of God. We all need each other, it was designed that way by God.
“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one
body-whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves
or free-and all have been made to drink into
one spirit. For in fact the body is not one
member but many.”
1 Corinthians 12:13,14
Though we are many, we are still one. We are made one by the Spirit. It does not matter where we come from, where we live, or how much we make in the eyes of God we are the same. It does not matter how we got here just that we are all here together now. We should stop concentrating on our differences and concentrate on our similarities. I guarantee you that we have more in common than we have different. It is alarming how we as a people are starting to discriminate against each other. Is there not enough strife in this world without us turning on one another? Instead of turning on each other we should be lifting each other up in prayer and in deed. Our survival depends on one another, do not let the enemy succeed in dividing us. He has already been successful in dividing us by nation, race, and denomination. The scripture says we are one body through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Let us live as one body. We will never be able to stem this epidemic of fornication and sexual sin without each others help. We need to be not only one body, but one mind. We need the mind to stop our selfish sinful ways. That mind can only come from Christ.
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