ONENESS

Friends it’s very important for every one of us to be united and have oneness in our holy spirit. Oneness should be there at different levels:

1. Level 1 : Oneness in Self
2. Level2 : Oneness in Family
3. Level 3: Oneness in the church

ONENESS IN SELF:

In psalms 86: 11 David prays to God as “Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name”. He seeks oneness in his heart from our Lord.

Also the verse says in James 1:8 as “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways”. Verses 5 to 7 in the same chapters also tells that seek god for wisdom with good faith but not wavering. Because we know those who waver will not get the things from our lord. So it’s very important for us to seek him with faith for which oneness in self is primary thing.

The following verse from Luke 16: 13 says that “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon”. So it’s important for us to understand that bringing Oneness in self and serving our Holy Lord is necessary.

ONENESS IN FAMILY:

It is hard to move forward and grow in spirit when there is no oneness in the family. As the below verse from Amos 3:3 says “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” it’s very difficult to grow together when there is no unity.

Acts 10:2 talks about Cornelius as “A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always”.

Also we know what happened to Paul and Barnabas, when they found there is no oneness in their spirit as explained in the following verses: Acts 15: 37-38. From there we don’t find the history of Barnabas in the bible whereas Paul continued.

Also it’s said in the bible in the book of Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 about the rewards for being united and having oneness. Verse 9 says like this “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour”

BUT WE SHOULD BE VERY CAREFULL IN BRINGING ONENESS BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA WHEN THEY AGREED TOGETHER TO TEMPT THE SPIRIT OF LORD AS WRITTEN IN ACTS 5:1-10.

It is very important for every husband and wife to bring oneness in the family by living in the way of God given in bible.

A good wife should possess following as written in bible:

1. Ephesians 5: 22-24 says :

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.”

2. I timothy 2:11-15 says:

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety”

3. Also the verse I Timothy 2:9-10 says how a woman should adorn herself as below :

“In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works”

4. I Corinthians 14:34-35 says how a woman should behave in the church as follows :

“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church”.

I Samuel 25 talks about how wisely a woman acted to calm down David’s anger. But we also see how Jezebel acted cruelly to make his husband, Ahab happy. It is written in I Kings 21:25 as “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.” So woman should act wisely to support his husband in proper way as directed by Holy Spirit.

Qualities of a good husband as written in the bible:

1. Ephesians 5: 25-28 says

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”

2. Also the verse I Timothy 2:8 says how a man should behave as below :

“I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting”

Husbands should be very careful in listening to his wife as we know how Adam-Eve failed. The same happened with Ananias-Spphira and Ahab-Jezebel.

ONENESS IN THE CHURCH:

Friends as given in the following verse from Ephesians 5:30 “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones”, being in church we are different parts of the same body. So nobody hates his own flesh as stated in verse 29 “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church”. It is very important for us to be always united and have oneness in our spirits. Ephesians 4:1-4 says the following

“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;”

Hebrews 10:24, 25 says the following

“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching”

In Acts 2:1-14, we see the blessings of Holy Spirit when they were all united and praying to Lord. Also in Zephaniah 3: 9, it is given the blessing as:

“For then will I turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent”