Mark 3:24-25
And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
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King Solomon had written in his Book of Ecclesiastes that two are better than one for their labor. And if either of them falls, the other one will lift him up. {Ecc.4:9-10} In the days of creation right after the Lord God made Man, Adam. He said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone' and then made a helper suitable for him, the woman. {Gen.2:18} Jesus, who is the Word, when He began to send His disciples out sent them two by two. {Mar.6:7}
It is all in the Lord’s plan, and yet, division certainly seems to be normal everywhere we look. Divorce in marriage has become so commonplace that a very large number of couples are just living together without any real commitment at all.
In my teaching on the schemes of the devil I have shown why Satan's strategy relies on one or more of these three things: Division, Distraction and Disarmament! That old devil wants to separate us from each other to the end of separating us from God!
Unfortunately he has been wildly successful over the centuries! In spite of the instruction from the Word of God that we should have no divisions among us {1Cor.1:10} we now have literally hundreds and hundreds of denominations to mark our disobedience. Not only that, but most boast in their particular choice!
The word 'denomination' comes from a root meaning "name"—so now the 'church' has a thousand names. Which should cause us to remember that Peter said. (God's Word) "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.” {Acts 4:12}
Many years ago I had been teaching at a conference in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, West Africa and on the last night I was speaking to a large group of pastors from all over that country as well as a number who had traveled from overseas in France and the Caribbean. I said to them, those men of prayer, because it had just struck me: “If you knew with absolute certainty that tonight would be your last night on earth, that you would not make it home, how would that affect your prayers tonight?” That was a question we need to answer for ourselves! That was basically the case as Jesus was praying to His Father as He headed for the cross! Jesus prayed:
“I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.
And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me.” (John 17:20-23)
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE SPIRIT, ONE BODY |
