The Power of Unity | Bible Study Journal
so today I wanted to talk about the importance of unity and that's something
that I feel like is so overlooked and Christianity but it's something that is
so extremely vital and I'll explain why so Psalm 133 verses 1 through 2 how good
and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity it is like
precious oil poured on the head running down on the beard running down on
Aaron's beard down on the collar of his robe so what does it all mean so
according to the scripture unity is good and pleasant unity brings anointing and
just an example of what anointing is anointing so in the past the Jews would
traditionally anoint the head or the body it was a common custom with Jews
and the anointing represents power especially power over sin power over
death so it's basically like you're receiving that the power that the Holy
Spirit has and so when the unity is talked about as being good and pleasant
it's because it brings the anointing and when we have that special anointing in
power as a body of Christ over sin and death then we win right I mean in the
end you know Christ wins but we as a body and whole working together in unity
have the anointing so one thing in particular that I wanted to talk about
was offense and when you have offense offense brings division and division is
a loss of power over sin so if unity is the anointing and then you get that
power over sin division is the loss of power over sin and that division can
happen through offense division weekends the body of Christ Ecclesiastes chapter
4 verse 12 though one may be overpowered two can defend themselves a cord of
three strands is not quickly broken and so that's why the body the Bible talks
about marriage marriage is in unity right and listen unity of three people
man women and God and that unity is absolutely secret and there's power and
having that unity and it's just anything with the body of Christ to can defend
themselves but accord of three strands so when you integrate God into that it
is not quickly broken and you know as talking about the fence in the end of
days CN will try to do many things in order to reign over the earth and in
Matthew chapter 24 and verse 10 it says and then many will be offended will
betray one another and will hate one another so that's one of the signs that
the end is nearing is you can tell by today's time you know a lot of people
are easily offended and offense is something that I want everyone to just
be very careful of because whether you realize it or not that is how Satan
tries to operate he tries to use defense offense in order to divide and when the
body is divided we have that loss of power over sin and we don't have that
strong anointing so I guess one thing that you can ask yourself is who you
surround yourself with where are you sourcing your advice fun
and have you been offended and the reason why I ask that is because so have
you ever had a situation with someone and you feel like it was a situation
where you think that person has done something wrong to you and now you're
bringing that information to a friend you know where are you sourcing your
advice from and that friend is perhaps not rooted in Christ and they're giving
you advice that is only bringing further division between you and that person
that you have that conflicts with so it's so important to surround yourself
with people who are also christ-like and you know strong question so if I need
advice on something I wouldn't necessarily ask a friend who
doesn't even believe in God I would probably go to someone who is like my
knit in Christ because you know I want to act according to God's Word and you
know if you're asking someone who's not necessarily living by God's Word for
advice if they don't know the word for themselves and how can they help you
help guide you as far as walking um in Christ so it's really important to
evaluate whole your surround yourself and I'm not saying to not be friends of
people who are not Christian I have tons of friends who are non-christians the
who are your close friends that you're sourcing your advice from and have you
been offended and I put you in capital letters because maybe that person you
know maybe you have something an issue with someone but a lot of the times it's
our own fault that we become offended so think about the situation any situation
that you've had that someone has offended you you you can probably you
know look at it from their point of view and see where they're coming from and
see that okay maybe I was offended and even if someone did hurt you instead of
going to someone else why don't you go to the person and so I can think of one
example years and years and years ago I think I was probably 22 or 23 I had a
friend and she was a Christian and I had an issue with someone and I don't know
how the topic came up but we started talking about it and I asked her for
advice and she told me you know but she just kept calm it deflecting it you
really need to talk to that person and you know you really need to just forgive
them and let it go and talk to them and work it through that's all she was
telling me and I just kept telling her no you don't understand this person hurt
me and they really did what they did it hurt me and she can see that you know
but instead of kind of jumping on the bed bandwagon and causing further
division she was a more cursed by mature Christian than me and she said you know
you should really go talk to that person and I didn't get it at the time I kind
of just brushed it off and thought well she doesn't understand how this person
hurt me but now that years and years have gone by I totally see where she's
coming from now and that's kind of the advice that I would give you avoid
gossip and jealousy and that is why Jesus preached on love if you love
someone then it's been it'll be really hard for you to become offended and you
know take ownership of your offense you became offended if you're gossiping
about someone you know even if you're telling your friend oh I can't believe
this person did this and you know they may jump in and
add to that first of all that person wasn't you know involved in your
conflict or even if they were that's not helping bring unity that's just causing
further division and that's just letting the devil win you know that's just
causing loss of power and anointing over seven same thing with jealousy look at
Cain and Abel Cain became jealous of Abel and because of that he killed Abel
he killed his brother over jealousy division and so if you have love in your
heart for your brother or sister in Christ
it's really difficult to be offended so be very careful about offense and the
next time you have a situation with someone no matter what it is bring it to
that person pray about it first and don't bring it to them when you're angry
because that can just cause further issues but just talk to them about it
and talk to them about here feeling doesn't have to be an argument but you
know you can just gently bring it to that person and even if that person is
not receiving that well that's okay you know at least you tried it at least you
know you don't have to go around and gossip but I think that's why I always
try to talk about gossip and jealousy in a lot of my videos because it really is
powerful don't gossip jealousy and forgiveness and forgiveness if you're
able to avoid gossip and jealousy and forgive very easily then you'll have a
hard time being offended so just kind of evaluate you know your life in any areas
of division and one thing if someone hurts you so I've been on both ends
right I've been the person to hurt someone and I've been the person that
has been hurt and when someone hurts you the last thing that you want to do is
bring unity and kind of make peace right because even if you're right you don't
want to do that because our flesh doesn't like that our flesh doesn't like
to kind of make peace or apologize or kind of just you know let things go and
forgive our flesh wants to hold on to it and be nasty and treat that person
not like Jesus wants us to treat them with love but honestly when someone
hurts you the best thing that you can do is pray for them and bless them and you
know blessings can be in so many ways you know a blessing could be a word of
encouragement it could be I don't know anything it could be a compliment prayer
monetary of course but when someone hurts you bless them and I guess I would
say that's the biggest weapon that you can use against offense so if something
happens you know things happen in life and you are offended someone hurts you
bless them because that way we are exemplifying love and that way by
blessing someone that hurts you you are not letting see in further use you in
this division which is his ultimate plan to divide the body so I really felt
urgency to share that with you today let me know what you think and if this was
helpful to you thank you so much for watching and I'll talk to you next time